[Beowulf] Best packaging practices/environment and containers

[Christopher Samuel]

On 11/03/16 02:25, Remy Dernat wrote:

> On the other hand, now, you have containers (docker, rkt, lxc, etc...),
> cgroups, namespaces and singularity (
> http://gmkurtzer.github.io/singularity/ ).

If you're looking at containers then I'd suggest taking a look at LBL's
Shifter which can de-weaponise Docker containers for safe use on HPC
clusters and includes Slurm support (i.e. submit a batch job that can
launch processes inside a nominated container):

http://www.nersc.gov/research-and-development/user-defined-images/

Code on Bitbucket here:

https://bitbucket.org/berkeleylab/shifter/overview

It's one of the things on my "to test" list. :-)

All the best,
Chris
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