Posts tagged containers
How to containerIze your jupyter kernel?
- 04 May 2021
- Jupyterhub
We have seen in this blog post how to encapsulate a jupyter notebook (server) in a singularity container . In this tutorial, I am going to describe how you can run a jupyter kernel in a container and make it available in the jupyter*.
Possible use case for this is to install a supported PyTorch
version
and work with jupyter notebooks (see GLIBC and the container-based workaround).
Single jupyter notebooks in containers
- 07 October 2020
you are using singularity containers
you need jupyter notebooks
New Singularity module deployed
- 02 October 2020
Recently, we deployed a new version of Singularity: 3.6.1. The old version is not available anymore due to many bugs reported by some users.
Errors like these are now fixed:
VS Code Remote on Mistral
- 01 October 2020
vs code is your favorite IDE
interested to use the remote extension

GLIBC and the container-based workaround
- 23 September 2020
Have you ever tried to install/use a software on Mistral and seen a message like this?
This is for example one of the reasons why PyTorch is not available
in our python3 module. Those software packages require a newer version
of glibc
. Unfortunately, most of Mistral nodes are based on CentOS 6
kernel. To check the version of glibc
: