Containers for HPC
A hybrid course on building, deploying, and running containerized applications on HPC infrastructure will be organized by the Vlaams Supercomputer Centrum (VSC) and NCC Belgium, with online and in-person sessions at ICTS KU Leuven on 2 October 2026.
Singularity can be viewed as the Docker for HPC. A Singularity image contains all the operating system and software components for your application and can be deployed and run on HPC infrastructure and on your own laptop.
Course program:
- Motivation: benefits of using images
- How to build images
- Defining your own specification file
- Tips and tricks
- Images for shared memory applications
- Images for distributed applications
- Images as services
- Deployment