Creating a Container
Overview
Rescale supports the use of software packages known as containers that are used in high performance computing to bundle application tools and their dependencies, licensingLicensing is a legal tool granting users the rights to use, ... More information, and instructions needed to execute on any given architecture. Common benefits of using containers include application portability, security, collaboration, and sometimes performance.
In the HPCThe use of parallel processing for running advanced applicat... More and Rescale context, containers simplify application development and deployment for organizations by bringing them into the cloud environment for access to greater scale and better performance, using the latest computing architectures. Containers also make it easier for IT organizations to better support, manage, and secure a variety of in-house applications.
Advanced containerA package of self-sustaining application and operating syste... More capabilities include:
- Multi-node high performance support for Singularity and Apptainer containers; Docker container support for single nodeIn traditional computing, a node is an object on a network. ... More applications
- ARM architecture support for the latest Singularity versions (3.9.6)
- High-performance networking, such as InfiniBanda high-speed, low-latency, and high-bandwidth networking tec... More using Open MPIAn open source Message Passing Interface project that is dev... More
- Container publishing via Rescale Templates for collaboration and standardization
- NVIDIA GPU-optimized containers for seamless integration of world-class AI applications
Singularity Container Example
Singularity (now Apptainer) containers are a tool for packaging up applications and running them on various host systems reproducibly. Singularity can import most Docker containers without issue and can be easily deployed as a user application that can run without any administrative privileges.
As of version 2.3, Singularity supports running containers that also use GPUsGPUs (Graphics Processing Units) are specialized electronic ... More running CUDA applications, making it a useful choice for running packaged deep learning jobs.
The “–nv” flag in the command line above instructs Singularity to pass through the host GPU interface to the container, enabling CUDA applications to run inside. This particular example runs the TensorFlow CNN benchmarks in a container on one or more GPUs.