Linux containers with Singularity

[Predrag Punosevac]

Dear Autonians,

I just want to give you heads up. I am about to wrap up my testing of
Singularity

http://singularity.lbl.gov/
https://github.com/singularityware/singularity

I anticipate that various Ubuntu container images will be made available
on our computing nodes in the next week or so. Yes on GPU computing
nodes as well. Singularity is essentially virtual-kernel technology for
Linux. Virtual kernels have being, to my knowledge, first time
introduced in DragonDfy BSD circa 2007 to enable kernel hackers to run
and debug safely multiple kernels in userland. Singularity for Linux is
mostly created out of frustration with the lack of portability of newly
written code and frustration with LXC/Docker security problems.
Singularity will essentially allow you to run your favorite Linux
flavour and application in the userland without root privileges and have
complete access to the file system. This is a nice intro video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuIQoth0r4E

Best,
Predrag