Containers¶

Users are welcome and encouraged to use containers to run their software on NERSC systems. To facilitate this, NERSC provides various container technologies.

podman-hpc¶

podman-hpc, an adaptation of Podman for HPC use-cases, is available on Perlmutter and offers several advantages over the Shifter tool.

Shifter¶

Shifter is a NERSC-developed tool which allows users to run images on NERSC systems such as Perlmutter.

registry.nersc.gov¶

NERSC offers a private image registry where users can store images. We offer information about and best practices for using the registry.