Singularity

Table of contents

1. Singularity support on the LPC
   1. Building Singularity images from Docker images
   2. Running Singularity containers

Singularity support on the LPC

Singularity is a containerization system designed for scientific and cluster computing environments. It has good interoperability with Docker for most use cases.

Building Singularity images from Docker images

There is a dedicated Singularity build machine, accessible from sciget. Connect to it and load Singularity with

$ ssh singularity01
$ module load DEV/singularity

You can then build Singularity images from DockerHub, or locally.

Running Singularity containers