HYAK: "Containers are your friend"

Recorded training delivered on Zoom on 21 August 2024.
Presenter: Dr. Kristen Finch; HPC Staff Scientist; Hyak Team

This video covers:
- Hyak software usage policies
- What is a container and why use them?
- Container repositories
- Apptainer shell
- Custom containers
- Building from local image

Websites cited in the video include:
Apptainer documentation: https://apptainer.org/docs/user/main/...
Hyak Containers Documentation: https://hyak.uw.edu/docs/tools/contai...
Hyak NVIDIA Containers Documentation: https://hyak.uw.edu/docs/tools/nvidia...
Convert a Dockerfile to an Apptainer definition file: https://apptainer.org/docs/user/1.1/d...

Container Repositories:
DockerHub https://hub.docker.com/
BioContainers Registry https://biocontainers.pro/registry
NVIDIA Catalog https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/?filte...

One exercise uses a tutorial from Tensorflow.
Tensorflow Repository on GitHub: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow
Tensorflow Tutorial Used: https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/...