Full course description
Term: Summer 2026
Date: July 16th, 2026
Time: 10:00 to 11:00 a.m.
Location: Online Only
Instructor: Chris Kuhlman
Presented By: Advanced Research Computing (ARC)
Description:
Prerequisites:
Preferred: Some familiarity with ARC clusters and (slurm) jobs.
To follow along doing examples: Access to a VT network (e.g., on campus [eduroam] or connected to VPN).
Description:
Containers (e.g., Docker, Apptainer) provide a mechanism for housing software such that it can run on virtually any computer. Among the advantages of containers are reproducibility, portability, and provenance. Here we focus on Apptainer (and Linux operating systems) because it is the type of container used in research computing environments where users do not have root privileges. Apptainer (open source) follows from Singularity and is highly compatible with Singularity, for those have heard of Singularity.