BioMonth - CSC supercomputing and data management for bioscientists

This course provides a VirtualBox image with pre-installed docker and singularity clients to facilitate your hands-on tutorials. You may use Play-with-Docker (PWD) which is an in-browser Linux terminal for docker environment if you have problems in setting-up VirtualBox on your computer. In the later case, you need to sign in PWD with your docker ID.

Getting Started with Course Environment

1. Start your VirtualBox set-up for course if you have not already done so.

   Download VirtualBox image for course from CSC’s Allas objects storage and set-up VirtualBox

2. What is the version of Docker installed in VirtualBox environment(=host machine for docker) for course?

   docker --version
   

3. What is the version of Singularity installed in this VirtualBox environment?

   singularity --version
   

NOTE: Some useful commands inside VirtualBox:

Copying text inside linux terminal: shift+control+c
Pasting text inside linux terminal: shift+control+v
Copying/pasting text inside the browser should work normally (i.e., control +c and control +v)

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