Software Stack in a Snapshot

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility is deploying Singularity to allow HPC resources to adopt “containers”—a technology that has benefitted non-HPC resources like cloud computing servers for a few years now. For HPC users, containerization will allow them to easily migrate their software stack between resources with minimal effort. For HPC facilities themselves, containerization gives users more autonomy to deploy the version of the software that best meets their specific needs.