Re: [slurm-users] container on slurm cluster

[Stephan Roth]

On 17.05.22 17:17, Timo Rothenpieler wrote:

On 17.05.2022 15:58, Brian Andrus wrote:

You are starting to understand a major issue with most containers.



Brian Andrus

I suggest you check out Singularity, which was built from the ground up to address most issues. And it can run other container types (eg: docker).

Documentation and Google results are wildly split between the two.

Side-Note to this, singularity is now called apptainer, but is otherwise the same thing.

Sidenote 2: Singularity was renamed to Apptainer. The 3.8 series is still maintained. Sylabs forked Singularity and kept the name.

So there are effectively 3 versions around for the time being:

https://github.com/apptainer/singularity (3.8 Series)
https://github.com/apptainer/apptainer (Successor to the original)
https://github.com/sylabs/singularity (SingularityCE, fork from Sylabs)

Also see: https://apptainer.org/news/community-announcement-20211130/



Stephan

Personal note: I'm not sure what I'd choose as a successor to Singularity 3.8, yet. Thoughts are welcome.

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