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Using Singularity for Geant4-based simulations on HPC infrastructures
Containers represent a well-known paradigm, which
has been widely adopted in enterprises thanks to its ability to
conveniently address issues related to fast delivery, portability
and life-cycle management of software. On the contrary, they
received so far modest attention in the scientific community and
their adoption in experimental physics computing has progressed
relatively slowly. Scientific applications are typically complex
because of several factors. Among them the heterogeneous system
requirements, i.e. specific versions of libraries and compilers, and
the frequent updates, normally developed by researchers who
are not familiar with software engineering principles. Containers
would greatly foster scientific activities in terms of software
availability, reproducibility, and shareability, in particular for
small research groups that need to couple scientific, sysadmin and
programming skills in one or a few persons. In this contribution
we briefly present an experience using Singularity containers
for running a multithreaded simulation based on Geant4 using
different INFN computing infrastructures
Automatic Morphological Analysis of Medial Temporal Lobe
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