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  • can't create non-root user in docker image because singularity/shifter map the root user to the true username.  creates issues on laptops where mpi doesn't like to be run as root
  • with both Shifter and Singularity you can do mpirun -n 3 <container> to run on multiple nodes but not with Docker
  • psana1 containers are big (8GB for python2-10GB for python3)
  • some installations of MPI on the host define a variable called OPAL_PREFIX. In some cases this interferes with MPI inside the container, and needs to be unset before launching a container with MPI: unset OPAL_PREFIX && mpirun -n 3 <container>
  • precise version of cuda in the container must match the host
  • major version of mpi in the container must match the host
  • containers at NERSC are patched with NERSC-specific versions, we believe because of the interconnect, although this happens automatically when doing "docker pull" at NERSC
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