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Apptainer is the most popular container solution for HPC. It has great integration with common specialized HPC hardware/software like GPU devices and MPI software stacks, and the containerized model it brings adds security and reproducibility that makes it ideal for deployment in a multi-user HPC cluster environment. One major use case for Apptainer is in...
It has been awhile since Singularity became Apptainer. If you haven't updated Singularity to Apptainer, or if you accidentally switched to SingularityCE and now want to switch back, this post is for you! How Singularity became Apptainer In May 2021, a private company wanted to develop their own version of Singularity autonomously. It created a fork...
Apptainer is the most popular container solution for HPC. It has great integration with common specialized HPC hardware/software like GPU devices and MPI software stacks, and the containerized model it brings adds security and reproducibility that make it ideal for deployment in a multi-user HPC cluster environment. One major use case for Apptainer is in...
Apptainer is often compared to Docker as both a container runtime engine and container management environment. In general, each tool targets a different use case; but the two projects notably differ in their runtime strategy. In general, Docker is designed to host system services, and Apptainer is designed to containerize end-user applications (often in a...
MoonRay is DreamWorks Animation’s in-house 3D renderer, used to render DreamWorks movies. DreamWorks has released MoonRay as open source, under the Apache 2.0 license. This is major news for the animation community, with many contributors already onboard with MoonRay. The official document provides two ways of building MoonRay: (1) Building MoonRay in a Docker container...
It is possible to configure your environment to start Apptainer (with arbitrary commands and options/arguments) in a Delve debugging session and then attach to the running server with VSCode. This gives you the ability to set break points, step in/out/over lines of code and functions, interrogate variables during runtime, etc. But it’s a little tricky...
The case of the missing GPU The other day I was preparing a GPU demo on the cloud service Vultr, and I ran into some problems. After going down a few rabbit holes, I found that the issue was one I had run into and fixed in a different context 5 or 6 years ago! ...
Rocky Linux users have long benefited from the availability of Apptainer on the EPEL repository. Apptainer, formerly known as Singularity, is widely used in the HPC community. Ubuntu is the one another major distribution for Apptainer users. Now there is great news for Ubuntu and Windows/WSL2/Ubuntu Apptainer users! Apptainer pre-built binaries are now available on...
Apptainer is free, open source software that is the most widely used container system for high performance computing (HPC). Apptainer, formerly known as Singularity, is now part of the Linux Foundation, which aims to democratize code and scale adoption by helping companies and developers identify and contribute to the projects that matter. It’s designed to...
Pulling together proven technology and the latest innovations, CIQ has created a turnkey solution with a traditional high performance computing (HPC) stack that meets the needs of a large variety of users. Easy to deploy, highly scalable, and very flexible, this infrastructure substrate provides a stable, secure, and supported foundation, empowering users to build the...
Forward by Brock Taylor Collaboration through open source may become a necessity for application developers to keep pace with the rapid introduction of technology in high performance computing. With the rapid injection of new silicon, new performance software, and managing all the existing components, developing for high performance computing is stress-inducing. The efforts led by...
Rocky Linux and Apptainer Receive Coveted HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards We are thrilled to announce that Rocky Linux and Apptainer have been recognized as recipients of the HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards, which were unveiled this week at the 2022 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC22), in Dallas, Texas. Each year,...