Using containers to move computations to HPC and the Cloud

Containers allow you to bundle up a program or script and all the packages and libraries it uses in a single archive that runs on any computer with a container runtime like Docker or Singularity (including the University HPC systems).

To follow the slides, you will need to create a DockerHub account and install Docker Desktop for your platform:

• Download for macOS
• Download for Windows
• Linux: consult the Manual for your distribution (e.g. instructions for Ubuntu)

The full text of the example Dockerfile we built is below:

FROM centos:6.10
RUN yum install epel-release -y
RUN yum update -y
RUN rpm --import http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/RPM-GPG-KEY-nux.ro
RUN rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el6/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-2.el6.nux.noarch.rpm
RUN yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel -y