Day: January 6, 2022

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Basic Usage of Singularity (Part 1)

The article is taken from https://github.com/NIH-HPC/Singularity-Tutorial. I’m personally learning much from the systematic rich contents and below are my learning points……

Downloading Singularity

https://github.com/sylabs/singularity

Popular Sites

There are popular sites for Singularity Download that has pre-build containers

Downloading the Containers

% singularity pull library://godlovedc/funny/lolcow
INFO:    Downloading library image
89.2MiB / 89.2MiB [========================================================================================================================================================] 100 % 5.4 MiB/s 0s
WARNING: integrity: signature not found for object group 1
WARNING: Skipping container verification

Singularity File

The Singularity File has a .sif extension something like this

lolcow_latest.sif

Entering the Shell of Singularity

% singularity shell lolcow_latest.sif
Singularity> cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="16.04.5 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS"
VERSION_ID="16.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
VERSION_CODENAME=xenial
UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial

You will notice the container is running Ubuntu…… although the Host OS could be different

Interesting Observations

a. The user remains the same inside and outside of the container.

Singularity> whoami
admin

b. The hostname remains the same inside and outside the container

Singularity> hostname
node1

c. Running the application within the containers

Singularity> cowsay moo
 _____
< moo >
 -----
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

d. Exiting the Application 

Singularity > exit

References:

  1. https://github.com/NIH-HPC/Singularity-Tutorial
  2. https://github.com/sylabs/singularity
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Install Nvidia Drivers on CentOS 7

Getting Information on Nvidia GPU on CentOS 7

# lspci | grep -i --color 'vga\|3d\|2d'
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. MGA G200e [Pilot] ServerEngines (SEP1) (rev 42)
86:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP102GL [Quadro P6000] (rev a1)

# lshw -class display
 *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: MGA G200e [Pilot] ServerEngines (SEP1)
       vendor: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       version: 42
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=mgag200 latency=0
       resources: irq:16 memory:d3000000-d3ffffff memory:d4a10000-d4a13fff memory:d4000000-d47fffff memory:d4a00000-d4a0ffff
  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GP102GL [Quadro P6000]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:86:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: iomemory:3df0-3def iomemory:3df0-3def irq:320 memory:ec000000-ecffffff memory:3dfe0000000-3dfefffffff memory:3dff0000000-3dff1ffffff ioport:c000(size=128) memory:ed000000-ed07ffff

Nvidia Downloads Site

From the Information, Download the Drivers from Nvidia Download Page

Yum Install Libraries and Dependencies

# yum group install "Development Tools"
# yum install kernel-devel
# yum install epel-release
# yum install dkms

Disable Noveau Drivers

Disable nouveau driver by changing the configuration /etc/default/grub file. Add the nouveau.modeset=0 into line starting with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX. This will disable the noveau driver after the reboot.

GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crashkernel=auto rhgb quiet nouveau.modeset=0"
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

Modifying the Grub.cfg

For BIOS User,

# grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.x86_64.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-957.el7.x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-957.el7.x86_64.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-86f557f292e5492aa7ac0bf1cb2670b0
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-0-rescue-86f557f292e5492aa7ac0bf1cb2670b0.img
done

For UEFI User

# grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.cfg

Switch CentOS from GUI to Text Mode

First switch to Text Mode

# systemctl isolate multi-user.target

Installing the Nvidia Driver on CentOS 7

# bash NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-*

Reboot the System

# reboot

Finally, run the command nvidia-settings to check and configure

# nvidia-settings

References