How to use Singularity (Apptainer)

Ever wanted to have all STAR framework within your laptop? Or wanted to run your own programs with specific installation requirements on SDCC using batch system? Reference - D.Smirnov presentation

On local PC for star infrastructure

Here is the README file for containers for star-software , read the section containers https://github.com/star-bnl/star-sw/

To sum up, just run this command:

apptainer run docker://ghcr.io/star-bnl/star-sw:main-root5-gcc485 bash -l

Then you can compile your StRoot files using cons command as in RCF.

Here is a link for how to install singularity on your local laptop: here

Apptainer (formerly Singularity) in short:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:apptainer/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y apptainer

How to partially clone STAR repository git star git tools

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On remote SDCC for your own progams

An example of usage of latest ROOT 6 to run a bash sell inside the container. More info here - quick_start

singularity pull docker://rootproject/root
singularity shell --bind /gpfs01/star/pwg:/gpfs01/star/pwg root_latest.sif 

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