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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. | 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. | ||
Apptainer is a fork of singularity and thus, also supports singularity commands and workflows. | |||
==Apptainer on Anunna== | ==Apptainer on Anunna== | ||
Latest revision as of 13:10, 25 February 2025
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.
Apptainer 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