Containers in HPC (NeSI)

Prerequisites

You’ll need a laptop with a web browser and a terminal. If you’re doing this tutorial as part of a NeSI workshop (e.g. at eResearchNZ) then please also sign up for a NeSI user account (if you don’t already have one). See the Setup page for detailed instructions.

Schedule

Setup
00:00 1. Introduction to containers
00:10 2. Basics of Singularity
00:40 3. Share files with the host: BLAST, a bioinformatics example
01:00 4. Build your own container image
01:40 5. Parallel processing with Dask-MPI containers
01:40 6. Molecular dynamics with GPU containers
01:55 7. GUI enabled applications: RStudio in a container
02:15 Finish

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