Colloquium 2023 Advanced Container Use on Clusters and Personal Computers

This presentation continues exploring the earlier presentations, "Leveraging the power of Linux on Windows with WSL" and "Parallel Computing: Start from Your Own Computer" and will discuss in detail:

  * how to run multiple Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) instances under Windows,
  * how to import other Linux containers into WSL on your computer,
  * how to export a WSL container and use such with Apptainer on such on Digital Research Alliance of Canada's clusters (which all run Linux and have Apptainer installed on them),
  * various aspects and issues of doing the above in practice, and,
  * the benefits and limitations of using one's own (Windows) computer in this way.

(Using MacOS to do the same will not be discussed in this talk.)