TL;DR: The generally available release of Singularity 3.4.0 allows you to build and run encrypted containers. Encryption is applied at rest, in transit, and during execution. The software is immediately available here. The generally available release of Singularity 3.4.0 places emphasis on a single feature: the ability to build and…

TL;DR: Singularity Desktop for macOS (Beta 1 Release) allows Linux containers to be designed, built, tested, and signed/verified on macOS; it is available here. This latest release includes an improved installer, support for networking, as well as an update to the Singularity 3.3.0 code base. At the inaugural meeting of…

TL;DR: Enhanced quality and stability. Secure UID/GID mappings via user namespaces. A new “sif” command. Pushing to and pulling from OCI registries via the “oras” reference. Singularity 3.3.0 is now generally available! Our first release candidate for Singularity 3.3.0 appeared in mid-June. Given the frenetic pace of development, we saw…

TL;DR: Sylabs is sponsoring a quarterly webinar program focused on Singularity and the container ecosystem. The first webinar emphasizes three services to accelerate container adoption and use — a library, a keystore and a remote builder. Webinar details here. When it comes to Singularity, there’s a plethora of excellent content…

TL;DR: A container-first philosophy is enabling Australian researchers in scientific computing at scale — even when interactive workflows are involved. For the details, please see below and the presentation at SUG here. SUG Series Introduction The inaugural meeting of the Singularity User Group (SUG) was held March 12–13, 2019, at the San Diego…

From a pre-event tutorial, to a post-event workshop, containerization bracketed the 2019 ISC High Performance conference and exhibition. A small, but enthusiastic, crew from Sylabs was on hand in Frankfurt, Germany to ‘fuel innovation’ via these technical sessions as well as the main event itself. Pre-Event Tutorial In a collaboration featuring Sylabs’…

TL;DR: Performance-critical applications demand the very notion of cloud native be revisited — there is a pressing need to move beyond just microservices. Motivation When it was originally formed some four years ago, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) was decidedly predispositioned towards microservices. …

TL;DR: Enhanced quality and stability. Secure UID/GID mappings via user namespaces. A new “sif” command. Pushing to and pulling from OCI registries via the “oras” reference. Collectively, this is what you can expect from Singularity 3.3.0 RC1. Right on time for discussion at ISC High Performance 2019 in Frankfurt, Germany…

At the inaugural meeting of the Singularity User Group (SUG), AMD Product Manager Derek Bouius made the case for generalizing support for GPUs in Singularity. By contributing the code required to implement this generalization, AMD has significantly accelerated (no pun intended!) …