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Introduction

Singularity is a portable application stack packaging and runtime utility.

Installed version

The currently installed version is available on environment hpc-env/6.4

Singularity/2.4.2-GCCcore-6.4.0

Using Singularity

If you want to find out more about Singularity on the HPC Cluster, you can use the command

module spider Singularity

This will show you basic informations e.g. a short description and the currently installed version.

To load the desired version of the module, use the command, e.g.

module load hpc-env/6.4
module load Singularity

Always remember: this command is case sensitive!

To get familiar with the commands and options available for Singularity, you can use the help function:

singularity --help

Documentation

The developers offer a detailed website with further information and a Quick Stard Guide.