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Information in the following sections may be useful if you are looking to build a new container with additional tools.

Use of

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OpenFOAM versions

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not provided by Pawsey

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titleWe strongly recommend to upgrade your workflow to a recent version of OpenFOAM

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 collated fileHandler. The versions provided by Pawsey are capable of using collated fileHandler. Please adhere to the recommended OpenFOAM: Best Practices.

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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titleTerminal 16. Pulling an external Docker image and creating the local singularity image
$ mkdir -p /software/projects/myProjectName$MYSOFTWARE/singularity/OpenFOAM
$ cd /software/projects/myProjectName$MYSOFTWARE/singularity/OpenFOAM
$ salloc -n 1 --mem=29600Mb -p copy
salloc: Granted job allocation 67529

$ module load singularity/<version>
$ srun singularity pull openfoam-org_2.4.x_pawsey.sif docker://quay.io/pawsey/openfoam-org:2.4.x
INFO:    Converting OCI blobs to SIF format
INFO:    Starting build...
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob 11323ed2c653 done
Copying blob 0a71b4dba9db done  
Copying blob 874ae6ae3b00 done  
Copying blob 5d27d6ffcb7e done
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2022/07/08 10:24:32  info unpack layer: sha256:cf6efca24562cd25028fcc99a4442f6062eeb62a60c7709f1454fc8bd8b0d5ea
2022/07/08 10:24:32  info unpack layer: sha256:072f30ec926604acc07e65868c407e1f0d3a3d98dd46340b04a572e55edcfaa6
2022/07/08 10:24:32  info unpack layer: sha256:9357e5bafecbf1d6af595baf24c54e2a10e182a738133a55c889293dcc7b4d10
2022/07/08 10:24:32  info unpack layer: sha256:7f6dad97028f1961f9b463b213119fea99228cda7f684aeeda213d5848ed125b
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2022/07/08 10:25:12  info unpack layer: sha256:537ce1385428d12c4ba18c09984440f280cce516bcb65ba3531b4a2a95533cfd
INFO:    Creating SIF file...

$ ls
openfoam-org-2.4.x-pawsey.sif


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