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Singularity

Definition
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Singularity is a container platform oriented toward shared HPC environments: unprivileged execution, integration with job schedulers, and importing Docker images into Singularity’s native image format were central design goals (development continues under the Apptainer open-source project name in many distributions).

Topics
Programming
URL
https://docs.sylabs.io/
Related
Apptainer Docker Conda

Why it matters in GWAS

Many biobank-scale workflows run on clusters that forbid rootful Docker; Singularity/Apptainer images let analysts run identical PRS, imputation, or single-cell stacks across login and compute nodes without system-wide installs.

Example usage

"We pulled the maintainer’s Docker image and converted it to Singularity for the consortium cluster."

Apptainer Docker Conda Python
Related-term network

Click any node to open that term page.

Node order. The current term is first. Next come every page linked from Related terms, in the same top-to-bottom order as that list. Then new terms appear in two-hop layers: for each of those direct neighbors (in that same order), their related terms are appended if not already listed. A third pass does the same for two-hop nodes. The walk stops when a fixed maximum number of nodes is reached.

References

  • Kurtzer GM, Sochat V, Bauer MW. (2017). Singularity: Scientific containers for mobility of compute. PLOS ONE.
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