Apptainer (formerly called Singularity) is a container technology suitable for use on compute clusters. Within an Apptainer container, one can run programs within the environment of another Linux distribution, make use of persistent filesystem overlays/images that appear as single-large files to the cluster outside of the container (e.g., keep file count quotas lower / increase efficiency of storing lots of small files; installing and using Conda, etc.), and more. This course will discuss how to use Apptainer on our compute clusters including some use cases such as using Apptainer to install and use Conda.
The live sessions will take place on Mon., Jan. 9; Wed., Jan. 11; and Thurs., Jan. 12 from 4pm to 5pm Eastern Time.
- Teacher: Paul Preney
Access is restricted to Digital Research Alliance of Canada (formerly Compute Canada) authenticated users only: Yes