Anvil (Purdue)ΒΆ
Anvil is an HPC cluster at NCSA with GPU and CPU nodes. Apply for resources on Anvil through the ACCESS program.
The glotzerlab-software image and the singularity cache are large, store them in your scratch directory:
$ cd $SCRATCH
$ export SINGULARITY_CACHEDIR=$SCRATCH/.singularity
Download the image with support for Anvil:
$ singularity pull software.sif docker://glotzerlab/software:anvil
Use the following commands in your job scripts or interactively to execute software inside the container:
Note
Replace command arguments with the command and arguments you wish to run. For example:
python3 script.py.
Serial (or multithreaded) CPU jobs:
mpirun -n 1 singularity exec --bind /anvil $SCRATCH/software.sif command arguments
MPI parallel CPU jobs:
mpirun singularity exec --bind /anvil $SCRATCH/software.sif command arguments
Important
You must use mpirun to launch parallel jobs. srun is not compatible with the MPI library
installed inside the container.
Note
This container is compatible with openmpi/4.0.6 which is loaded by default on Anvil.
Attention
The container is built with GPU support but GPU jobs have not been tested on Anvil.