E4S container launcher is a tool to ease running MPI applications in E4S containers with host libraries. Built upon the MPICH ABI Compatibility Initiative.
Check out the documentation here
Running an application with E4S Container Launcher can be as simple as prefixing the launcher command by e4s-cl launch.
e4s-cl init
e4s-cl launch mpirun -np 4 ./foo
The full details on execution and configuration can be found here.
Install using the provided Makefile. The installation location can be set using the INSTALLDIR variable:
git clone https://github.com/E4S-Project/e4s-cl
cd e4s-cl
make INSTALLDIR=<prefix> install
Once the installation succeeds, add <prefix>/bin to your PATH.
The full details on installation targets can be found here.
e4s-cl wraps around launchers to execute a small amount of pre-processing before launching a container.
It recursively calls itself with the launcher used by the user before executing the command, analyses the library environment from the host, and uses on the container technology to bind the necessary files and libraries in the guest container.
