SLURM Spank Singularity plugin

By Staff

May 9, 2018 | Blog

Provide a simple interface to allow Slurm users to run executables inside a Singularity container using srun.

Slurm provides host machine resource/workload management. – Singularity provides the software environment.

Integration goal
– Manage Singularity container images.
– Generate required Singularity command from new srun options.

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