Singularity (software)
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| developer | Sylabs.io |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| operating system | Linux |
| programming language | Go |
| category | Virtualization |
| License | BSD-3 clause |
| sylabs.io/singularity | |
Singularity is a cross-platform and open source software for virtualization at the operating system level ( container virtualization ).
With Singularity, containers and their reproducibility are made available in particular for the area of high-performance computing . Container virtualization enables a runtime environment including executable source code to be easily copied and moved to another system and ensures that the code in this environment behaves identically to the original system.
Singularity first appeared in 2016, the source code is published on github.
The project is maintained by Sylabs.io. Leading scientific institutes use Singularity, including Harvard University , Stanford University and the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ github.com/sylabs/singularity . Retrieved January 20, 2018.
- ^ Singularity Info . Retrieved January 20, 2018.
- ^ Who's using Singularity . Retrieved January 20, 2018.