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if you need to install your container, please contact rchelp@hms.harvard.edu and provide all relevant information about your container, and we will install it for you.

Overview

We are running a pilot project to support Singularity containers in O2; Singularity allows users to execute software containers within regular O2 jobs, and it is fully compatible with existing Docker images. 

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Code Block
#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH -p short 
#SBATCH -t 2:00:00
#SBATCH -c 1 
#SBATCH --mem=4G


singularity exec /n/app/singularity/containers/$USER/your_container.sif tool_to_run



Note 1:

By default only /tmp and /home/$USER are available inside the singularity container. 

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Access permissions for those filesystem is preserved inside the container.

Note 2:

By default not all env variables might be ported inside the singularity container. If a variable defined outside Singularity needs to be ported inside the container and it is not available by default, it can be pre-set  outside the container with the prefix SINGULARITYENV_.  For example the variable FOO can be ported inside the singularity container by presetting it as SINGULARITYENV_FOO

Code Block
compute-a-16-21:~ FOO="something"
compute-a-16-21:~ export SINGULARITYENV_FOO=$FOO 


Note 3:

If you plan to use one or more GPU cards inside the container you need to submit the O2 job to a partition that supports GPU computing and add the flag --nv to your singularity command, for example:

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