Container Technology

Building more complex processing and analysis pipelines within a container can offer several advantages:

  • The container fully encapsulates the job and all software dependencies
  • Software dependencies do not need to be installed on the HPC facility
  • Your workflow can easily be replicated or moved between other systems
  • You can run pre-built job containers which application developers publish

The Comet HPC facility supports the following container tools:

This section is incomplete

This documentation section on Container Technology is still being written and will not be complete until the Comet HPC facility is fully commissioned.

Docker

Apptainer

Podman

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