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Reproducible computational environments using containers: Introduction to Singularity

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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

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