Containers for Reproducible Computational Environments (Oct 2026)
Thu, 08 Oct
|Live, interactive workshop via Zoom.
Discover software containers - a reproducible, standardised, transferrable way to run research software consistently across different hardware.
Time & Location
08 Oct 2026, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm AEST
Live, interactive workshop via Zoom.
About the event
Containers are self-contained pieces of software that allow you to run applications easily across all sorts of different computing hardware - from your laptop to your institutional high-performance computing system - without the need for a complicated installation process. Containers are also an effective way of achieving a reproducible analysis pipeline, allowing researchers to ensure that the same version of an application and consistent computational environment are used each time.
This short, introductory course will show you how to find and use containers in a typical HPC research computing context, using the Singularity container platform.
Please note that the workshop does not cover the use of the Docker container platform, although you will learn how to import Docker containers into Singularity.
FAQs
What should I bring into the event?
This is an online workshop, so you will need to provide your own computer and have access to a reliable internet…