Apptainer

Apptainer is a container platform. It allows you to create and run containers that package up pieces of software in a way that is portable and reproducible. You can build a container using Apptainer on your laptop, and then run it on many of the largest HPC clusters in the world, local university or company clusters, a single server, in the cloud, or on a workstation down the hall. Your container is a single file, and you don’t have to worry about how to install all the software you need on each different operating system.

AApptainer is a fork of singularity and thus, also supports singularity commands and workflows.

Apptainer on Anunna

A version of apptainer is available for each year-bucket. This means that every year a new version will be available.

One can load apptainer by running the following commands

module load 2023
module load Apptainer