vortex/miscs/apptainer/README.md

Apptainer Build Process

Use the Slurm scheduler to request an interactive job on Flubber9

salloc -p rg-fpga --nodes=1 --ntasks-per-node=64 --mem=16G --nodelist flubber9 --time=01:00:00

Go to apptainer directory

$ pwd
vortex/miscs/apptainer

$  apptainer build --no-https vortex_fpga.sif vortex_fpga.def 

To start the apptainer,

$ apptainer shell --fakeroot  --cleanenv --writable-tmpfs --bind /opt/xilinx/:/opt/xilinx/ --bind /netscratch/rn84/devnull:/dev/null --bind /dev/bus/usb,/sys/bus/pci --bind /projects:/projects --bind /tools:/tools  --bind /netscratch:/netscratch vortex_fpga.sif

Inside the Apptainer,

Apptainer> lsusb

should show devices connected to machine on which you are running this command

Apptainer> source /opt/xilinx/xrt/setup.sh
Apptainer> source /tools/reconfig/xilinx/Vitis/2023.1/settings64.sh

Apptainer> platforminfo -l