Apptainer#
Apptainer is a free, cross-platform and open-source computer program that performs operating-system-level virtualization also known as containerization. You can read more about at the Apptainer website.
There are additional pointers on Apptainer within the Container section of HPC2
The Apptainer module on the HPC#
The Apptainer module can be loaded into your environment with the following command:
$ module add apptainer
The apptainer module is available on both ARC3 and ARC4:
System |
Version |
Command |
|---|---|---|
ARC4 |
Apptainer 1.1.6 |
|