Apptainer

apptainer is available at the OS level on BMRC — it can be invoked from any node without loading a module.

For a full walkthrough, see our dedicated Apptainer training material: (click below)

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KIR Research Computing

Apptainer Training Material →

• Introduction to containers
• Apptainer cache and temp
• Binding external filesystem
• Pulling images from upstream registies
• How to run with exec and run

Local Apptainer Repository

• Some applications are built and served via Apptainer. These are stored in /well/kir/mirror/containers, to which all Kennedy researchers have read access.
• Definition files for these containers are available at: https://github.com/kir-rescomp/Apptainer-def-files