Singularity
- Guidelines for Contributing
- Pull Request Template
- Project License
- Documentation
- Community Meetings / Minutes / Roadmap
- Support
- Citation
Singularity is an open source container platform designed to be simple, fast, and secure. Singularity is optimized for compute focused enterprise and HPC workloads, allowing untrusted users to run untrusted containers in a trusted way.
Check out talks about Singularity and some use cases of Singularity on our website.
Getting Started with Singularity
To install Singularity from source, see the installation instructions. For other installation options, see our guide.
System administrators can learn how to configure Singularity, and get an overview of its architecture and security features in the administrator guide.
For users, see the user guide for details on how to use and build Singularity containers.
Contributing to Singularity
Community contributions are always greatly appreciated. To start developing Singularity, check out the guidelines for contributing.
Our roadmap, other documents, and user/developer meeting information can be found in the singularity community page.
We also welcome contributions to our user guide and admin guide.
Support
To get help with Singularity, check out the Singularity Help web page.
Citing Singularity
Kurtzer GM, Sochat V, Bauer MW (2017) Singularity: Scientific containers for mobility of compute. PLoS ONE 12(5): e0177459. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177459
We also have a Zenodo citation:
Kurtzer, Gregory M. et. al. Singularity - Linux application and environment
containers for science. 10.5281/zenodo.1310023
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1310023
This is an 'all versions' DOI. Follow the link to Zenodo to obtain a DOI specific to a particular version of Singularity.
License
Unless otherwise noted, this project is licensed under a 3-clause BSD license found in the license file.