Penguin Computing Supports Singularity
Penguin Computing has announced support for Singularity containers for it’s HPC Cloud (Penguin Computing On-Demand) and Scyld ClusterWare HPC management software! They have started a public Github repository of specification files for images, and we are excited to see reproducibility coming to the resource. You can...
Singularity Manuscript
We are proud to announce that you can now cite Singularity proper! Our recent publication in PLOS One can be cited as follows: Kurtzer GM, Sochat V, Bauer MW (2017) Singularity: Scientific containers for mobility of compute. PLoS ONE 12(5): e0177459. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177459 Thanks to...
SingularityWare LLC on HPC Wire
Greg and the new SingularityWare LLC. were recently featured on HPC Wire to announce changes to the organizational infrastructure (and primarily, how not much is changing at all!) and exciting underway for Singularity. Who is RStor? What is to come for Singularity? Excited to learn more?...
Singularity Big Announcement
Notice to all Singularity users, contributors, and collaborators This is an important announcement from Greg Kurtzer, founder and lead developer of Singularity. Singularity continues to gain popularity and traction very quickly. This growth has been extremely demanding on my time and is outpacing my ability to sustain the broad...
Singularity 2.2.1 Security Release
For the full release announcement and downloads, please see the release on Github. This release includes a fix for a Moderate Severity security issue, and other improvements to version 2.2. Security information: In versions of Singularity previous to 2.2.1, it was possible for a malicious user to...
HPC Roundup of 2016
If you weren’t aware, 2016 was a wild ride for HPC! Check HPC Wire’s fast rewind of 2016, including everything from people to watch to containers to public policy and the unfortunate state of things. Thanks to all of our users and contributers to an amazing 2016, and...
Containers at SC on the D&G Podcast
Jamie Duncan from RedHat describes containers in enterprise and HPC on the D&G podcast. Listen for Singularity, and Jamie describing its amazing uptake within the scientific community - around 14:50. If you missed Supercomputing, it might be interesting to hear how the uptake was perceived!
Qlustar announces Singularity support
On behalf of the Qluster team, we are proud to share the news that Qlustar now supports Singularity! From the words of the team: …just wanted to let you know that Qlustar now supports Singularity out of the box and in addition, we provide up-to-date Debian...
Birds of a Feather for Singularity at SC 2016
On behalf of Greg, the BoF will be on Thursday at 10:00 a.m, hosted by a group from Aeon Computing. There will be no vendor pitch, just a casual place to hang out and chat about technical stuff and whatever else. Aeon is also pitching in...
Singularity Eases Scientific Computing
Greg Kurtzer comments on the rise of containers, and how Singularity is ideal for scientists. Read the news article at HPC Wire.
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