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Singularity installation guide
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Singularity is a free, cross-platform and open-source computer program that
performs operating-system-level virtualization also known as
`containerization <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-level_virtualisation>`_.
One of the main uses of Singularity is to bring containers and reproducibility
to scientific computing and the high-performance computing (HPC) world.
The Singularity installation instructions can be found in the
`the singularity documentation <https://www.sylabs.io/docs/>`_.