Running containers on LUMI

Presenter: Julius Roeder (DeIC)

Content:

• What is a container and what can it do
• How do you use containers
• Mounting filesystem into containers
• Official LUMI (FakeCPE) containers

Extra materials

• Presentation slides

• Hands-on exercises

• Documentation:

  • LUMI docs "Container jobs" page

  • LUMI Software Library for information about the available EasyConfigs for containers

• Training materials from the most recent LUMI introductory training in March 2025

  • The "LUMI Software Stacks" talk discusses using EasyBuild among other things.

  • The "Containers on LUMI-C and LUMI-G" talk also covers the AI containers towards the end of the presentation.

• And some demos from the LUMI introductory training in March 2025

  • "Demo 1: Fooocus" extends a container installed with EasyBuild with additional packages and is based on the demo given the EuroHPC master students at the most recent EuroHPC Summit Week.

  • "Demo 2: A short walk-through for distributed learning" demonstrates a procedure also covered in the documentation to do distributed learning using the container with the module installed by EasyBuild.

Q&A

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