Containers are very good for consistently setting up software and being able to deploy it to any system that provides a container manager. These are also very often used in Continuous Integration runners and offer a very broad ability to deploy any software even if it has a conflict with the host operating system. Additionally, in HPC containers are often used to deploy very specific and version-safe software packages.

• Understand when to use containers for HPC
• Be able to convert a local workflow on workstation/laptop into a container suitable for HPC systems
• Getting data in and out of containers, getting MPI and CUDA to work, etc.
• Use Continuous Integration for building containers, using containers for testing, and storing containers

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