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  qsub -l singularity -b y singularity run
 
  qsub -l singularity -b y singularity run
  
this is a special command so singularity will run on a specific server
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this is a special command so singularity will run on a specific server, you don't need to alter this, just copy it.
 
   /full_path_to/ubuntu.sif  
 
   /full_path_to/ubuntu.sif  
 
this is the image you download for the software you are interested in
 
this is the image you download for the software you are interested in

Revision as of 11:08, 24 May 2019

We have been working hard in the background to allow users to be able to run Docker images. Good news you can now do this via Singularity (Don’t worry this is all installed and should just work). Try Conda to install your package of interest first. If it is not on Conda, you can try the following:

Please remember, you must run this through qsub and not directly on the head node.

Full singularity documentation is here;

https://www.sylabs.io/guides/3.2/user-guide/

where to get the images from? search here:

https://hub.docker.com/

if you search funannotate you will see the phrase: nextgenusfs/funannotate this is what you want

to download the image, simply type:

singularity pull docker:name_of_image
e.g.  singularity pull docker:nextgenusfs/funannotate


Please, do not run this on the head node, this must be run through the qsub system.

Example of how to run via qsub:

qsub -l singularity -b y singularity run /full_path_to/ubuntu.sif ./test_script.sh
replace: ubuntu.sif with whatever image you are trying to run

Lets go through that command in more depth:

qsub -l singularity -b y singularity run

this is a special command so singularity will run on a specific server, you don't need to alter this, just copy it.

 /full_path_to/ubuntu.sif 

this is the image you download for the software you are interested in

 ./test_script.sh
this needs to contain the commands you want to run


example 2, runnin the image with qsub:

qsub -pe multi 8 -l singularity -b y singularity run /full_path/funannotate_latest.sif /full_path/fun_singularity.sh

The shell must have the current working directory full path in it as cd /ful_path/

putting #!cwd command in your shell scripts will not work!
cd /ful_path/
-pe multi 8     this asks for 8 cores, just as normal. 


Notes for Admin: To add another node with singularity on:

qconf -me <nodename>

On the complex_values line remove NONE if present, and add "singularity=TRUE" Followed guide here: https://blogs.univa.com/2019/01/using-univa-grid-engine-with-singularity/ now a request-able resource with "-l singularity" to make sure you get a node with singularity on