December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
494 pages
11h 41m
English
Azure Batch also supports the deployment of containers. You can use Docker containers or Singularity. Singularity is similar to Docker, but it is primarily designed to run on shared HPC clusters in on-premises environments and for super-computing installations.
Singularity does not require root privileges to execute containers. It allows applications to leverage GPUs and specialized networking within the privileged scope of the executing user. This makes Singularity compatible with permissions-constrained HPC environments. Where Docker was originally designed to run Linux containers, Singularity can import Docker images and run Windows containers as well (it works completely independently of Docker).
Singularity ...