Singularity is a container platform. It allows you to create and run containers that package up pieces of software in a way that is portable and reproducible. You can build a container using Singularity on your laptop, and then run it on many of the largest HPC clusters in the world, local university or company clusters, a single server, in the cloud, or on a workstation down the hall. Your container is a single file, and you don’t have to worry about how to install all the software you need on each different operating system.
Singularity was created to run complex applications on HPC clusters in a simple, portable, and reproducible way. First developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, it quickly became popular at other HPC sites, academic sites, and beyond. Singularity is an open-source project, with a friendly community of developers and users. The user base continues to expand, with Singularity now used across industry and academia in many areas of work.
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- BYOE: Bring Your Own Environment!
- Reproducible science
- Commercially supported code requiring a particular environment
- Static environments (software appliances)
- Legacy code on old operating systems
- Complicated software stacks that are very host specific
- Complicated work-flows that require custom installation and/or data
https://webapps.lehigh.edu/hpc/training/lurc/byos.html#53Seminar Slides and Recordings