Sylabs Launches the Singularity Containers Certification

Reno, NV – (April 10, 2024) – Sylabs, a provider of tools and services for performance-intensive container technology, today announces the launch of a new certification focusing on the Singularity container platform. Rooted in open-source SingularityCE, the Singularity container platform has become an indispensable tool for users in large computing environments practicing mission-critical data science, […]

Sylabs Releases SingularityCE 3.11 for HPC Workflows with OCI Compatibility

Reno, NV – February 16, 2022 – Sylabs, a provider of performance-intensive container technology, today announced the release of SingularityCE 3.11, which the company said takes a step towards full OCI compatibility in the future 4.0 release. Features of the update include improvements to container builds, broadened workflows for signing and verification of images, and […]

Relief for the Solution Architect: Pushing Back on HPC Cluster Complexity with Warewulf and Apptainer

[SPONSORED CONTENT]  How did you, at heart and by training a research scientist, financial analyst or product design engineer doing multi-physics CAE, how did you end up as a… systems administrator? You set out to be one thing and became something else entirely. You finished school and began working with some hefty HPC-class clusters. One […]

Linux Foundation Hosts Project for Container Collaboration Between Enterprise and HPC

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30, 2021 — The Linux Foundation has announced it will host the Apptainer project (formerly the Singularity project) — Apptainer being a widely used container system for high-performance computing (HPC) and one of the container systems suited for both enterprise and HPC use cases. It is designed to execute applications at bare-metal performance […]

Amazon and Red Hat Announce GA of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS

SEATTLE and RALEIGH, N.C. — March 24, 2021 — Amazon Web Services, Inc (AWS) and Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), a managed service available via the AWS Console that designed to make it easier for OpenShift customers […]

Scaleway to Hold Breakathon March 25, Stress-test Kubernetes Kapsule’s Performance

Paris – February 25, 2021 – Scaleway, an alternative European infrastructure and platform as-a-service provider, has announced “the Breakathon” centered on its container orchestrator, Kubernetes Kapsule. On March 25, developers and user communities are invited to test the limits of Kubernetes Kapsule clusters, and put their skills to the test, combining web development, multi-cluster management, […]

Why Containerization was Key to Fueling Innovation at ISC19

In this special guest feature, Ian Lumb from Sylabs describes containerization was Fueling Innovation at ISC 2019. “Interest in containerization has never been stronger. Although there’s much to extract from ISC19, even if you weren’t able to attend the event, there are alternative approaches for accelerating your uptake of this secure, performant, and portable technology that also ensures reproducibility.”

Hyped Technologies that Won’t Shine in 2015

“100% Flash in the Datacenter? It won’t happen any time soon. Many (most?) tier one workloads will be moved to flash of course, but data is adding up so quickly that it’s highly unlikely you will be seeing a 100% datacenter any time soon. It will take a few years to have about 10/20% of data stored on flash and the rest will remain on huge hard disks (cheap 10+TB hard disks will soon be broadly available for example).”

Will Containerization Eat Configuration Management?

Over at QNIB, Christian Kniep writes that his latest presentation examines intersection of Docker, Containerization, and Configuration Management. “In my humble opinion, Configuration Management might become a niche. As hard as it sounds.”