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Use CernVM-FS on batch?.

Singularity

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/cvmfs/ is mounted on all compute and interactive hosts. You can test access by SSH into head.arcc.albany.edu using singularity. Singularity allows users to spawn secure containers, giving them full control over their environment without root privileges. For more information, please see https://www.sylabs.io/.

ITS provides a singularity image that can be run, giving a user access to /cvmfs/ without root. 

How-to: Execute an Interactive Shell in the Image

There are two ways to access the image, from a shared network path, or to pull it down to a directory of your choice. 

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Executing a shell from the shared network directory:

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singularity exec --bind /network/ /network/rit/misc/software/singularity/images/singularity_cernvmfs.sif parrot_run bash --noprofile --norc
cd /cmvfs/

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(How-to: Connect via SSH (PuTTY, macOS terminal) and then executing

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cd 

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/

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cvmfs/

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How-to: Copy Files to my Lab Share

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singularity run --bind /network/ singularity_cernvmfs.sif cp -R /cvmfs/[path/to/files] /network/rit/lab/[path/in/lab]
ls


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