Introduction to Containers in HPC
Ended Feb 12, 2020
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Full course description
Term: Spring 2020
Date: February 12th, 2020
Time: 10:30am - 11:30am
Location: Torgersen 1100
Instructors: James McClure & Mai Dahshan
Presented By: Advanced Reasearch Computing
Description:
In this workshop, we will provide hands-on experience in creating and managing HPC containers (i.e., Singularity) for research. HPC containers will enable HPC users to access many application components – entire scientific workflows, libraries, software stacks, and more – in a way that is portable, accessible and easy to reproduce. A container is deployed on an operation system host, and shares the basic functionality (kernel, network, peripherals) with the host, but, OS like functionality like the system libraries and the rest of the OS stack is defined by the container and may be different than the host OS.
In this one-hour hands-on workshop, we will teach you how to use software "containers" for your computational research. After the workshop, you will learn:
● How could containers be relevant to and have an impact on your research?
● Building and running your own software environments
● Important Issues to consider when running Singularity
● Creating Singularity images and converting Docker images to Singularity
● Running Tensorflow and Jupyter on Containers