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Use CernVM-FS on batch?.

Singularity

CernVM-FS can be accessed on head-01.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/.

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Instructions

/cvmfs/ is mounted on all compute and interactive hosts. You can test access by SSH into head.arcc.albany.edu , they can be built via github + singularity-hub (https://www.singularity-hub.org/) CI/CD, or on a local machine and pushed to singularity-hub, then pulled down to head-01.arcc.albany.edu and run, seamlessly. How-to:

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

Executing a shell from the shared network directory:

Connect via SSH (PuTTY, macOS terminal) and then executing

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cd /

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Pulling the image to a directory of your choice

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$ cd [path/to/your/directory]
$ singularity pull shub://nschiraldi/singularity:cernvmfs
$ singularity exec --bind /network/ singularity_cernvmfs.sif parrot_run bash --noprofile --norc
$ cd /cvmfs/

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]cvmfs/
ls


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