Reproducible computational environments using containers: Introduction to Singularity

This lesson provides an introduction to the Singularity container platform.

It covers the basics of using Singularity and creating containers:

• What is Singularity?
• Installing/running Singularity on the command line
• Running containers
• Creating Singularity images
• Running an MPI parallel application from a Singularity container

Contributing

We welcome all contributions to improve the lesson! Maintainers will do their best to help you if you have any questions, concerns, or experience any difficulties along the way.

We'd like to ask you to familiarize yourself with our Contribution Guide and have a look at the more detailed guidelines on proper formatting, ways to render the lesson locally, and even how to write new episodes.

Please see the current list of issues for ideas for contributing to this repository. For making your contribution, we use the GitHub flow, which is nicely explained in the chapter Contributing to a Project in Pro Git by Scott Chacon. Look for the tag . This indicates that the maintainers will welcome a pull request fixing this issue.

Maintainer(s)

Current maintainers of this lesson are

• Jeremy Cohen
• Andy Turner

Authors

A list of contributors to the lesson can be found in AUTHORS

Citation

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