Introduction to Containers on HPC

Prerequisites

You’ll need a laptop with a web browser and a terminal. See also the Setup page.

You might want to brush up on the fundamentals of the Linux Shell for HPC.

Structure

This tutorial has been designed in a modular way. Episodes can be thought as categorised as follows:

Once you’ve gone through Episodes 1-7, there are almost no further dependencies. You can go on and pick whichever you are interested in, and you will be able to follow through.

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Schedule

Setup
00:00 1. Introduction to containers
00:10 2. Basics of Docker
00:35 3. Basics of Singularity
01:05 4. Build and share your own container image
01:25 5. Building images with Docker
01:45 6. Building images with Singularity
02:05 7. Best practices
02:30 8. Streamline the user experience: bash wrappers, modules and SHPC
03:00 9. MPI containers
03:25 10. Python containers
03:50 11. Other notable container tools
04:05 Finish

The actual schedule may vary slightly depending on the topics and exercises chosen by the instructor.