[Beowulf] Containers in HPC

[Loncaric, Josip]

Charliecloud works for us.

-Josip

On 5/26/19 4:11 AM, Benjamin Redling wrote:
> On 23/05/2019 16.13, Loncaric, Josip via Beowulf wrote:
>> "Charliecloud" is a more secure approach to containers in HPC:
> I tried Singularity short before and during 2.3 with GPUs -- didn't
> work, documented issue, maybe solved. Stopped caring.
>
> Shortly afterwards I read about Charliecloud and tried it -- didn't
> work, too many issues. Stopped caring.
>
> So, "more secure" on paper (less lines of code) doesn't get any work done.
> My advice to anyone with a working setup: try it out if time permits,
> but don't bother to much and definitively don't advertise it to third
> parties beforehand.
>
> Regards,
> Benjamin


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