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Information in the following sections may be useful if you are looking to build a new container with additional tools.
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OpenFOAM versions
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First of all, it is important to reiterate that one of the most important best practices of OpenFOAM at Pawsey is to minimise the number of result files. For this, we strongly recommend users to upgrade their workflows to the most recent versions of OpenFOAM, which are capable of reducing the number of result files with the use of the |
As mentioned in the main documentation for OpenFOAM, several recent versions of OpenFOAM containers are already available in Setonix through modules. One advantage of these modules is that OpenFOAM tools and solvers are accessible through basic commands without the need of calling singularity explicitly in the command line. The call to singularity is performed under the hood by the tool/solver's wrappers.
If users need a new version of OpenFOAM that is still not installed in our systems, please , they can create their own container for that version, or can contact support so that we can make it available to users.
If users are still forced to use an old version of OpenFoam that is not installed in our systems, we recommend to use a container equipped with the needed version.
Pawsey has already built several Docker images with the main intention to serve as examples for users to builid their own images. Pawsey-provided Docker images are available through our registry in Red Hat Quay.io (https://quay.io/pawsey) in directories openfoam & openfoam-org. Other directories with the "-legacy" post-fix contain images built with operating-system versions that do not run properly on Setonix anymore. The corresponding building recipes (Dockerfiles) are at Pawsey GitHub repostory (https://github.com/PawseySC/pawsey-containers). As said, users should use these recipes as examples to build their own.
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