Webinar: Introduction to Singularity

We invite you to take part in the free webinar: "Introduction to Singularity", Gregory Kurtzer In recent years, container technologies, specifically Docker, has become immensely popular for providing environment encapsulation and ease of application deployments in the web and enterprise computing industries. However, these technologies are designed for micro-service level virtualization, not for multi-tenant scientific computing environments and thus they introduce various complexities (or impossibilities) when trying to integrate with an HPC computing resource. Singularity is a container system designed specifically for scientific computing emphasizing on reproducibility, mobility of compute, archival of containers, complete user freedom and compatibility with HPC resources. It has been tested on many large scale x86, ARM and Power systems and supports MPI, all resource managers (e.g. SLURM, Torque, SGE, Condor, etc.), GPUs, Xeon Phi, parallel file systems, and it takes very little configuration or administration to implement. For these reasons, Singularity has been quickly gaining traction in the scientific computing communities. Speaker Gregory Kurtzer is the IT HPC Systems Architect and technical lead of the high performance scientific computing team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with a joint appointment at UC Berkeley. He currently serves as a member of the OpenHPC Technical Steering Committee as well as being known throughout the industry for creating various open source initiatives such as Centos Linux, Warewulf, Perceus, and most recently, the container system Singularity. Registration: https://flyelephant.net/events/webinar-introduction-to-singularity