With the end of life of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL 7), VACC and ETS are transitioning our HPC cluster to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (RHEL 9). This update provides an opportunity to review and ...

Not everyone can declare themselves “benevolent dictator for life” of a company, but such was the nature of Guido van Rossum, the Dutch programmer who invented an entire programming language from ...

Anyone familiar with resolve.conf errors in Docker/Singularity? Do I need to get Apptainer installed instead, or is this something issue with making an Ubuntu image on a Windows 11 host? I've tried ...

Soon to be the official tool for managing Python installations on Windows, the new Python Installation Manager picks up where the ‘py’ launcher left off. Python is a first-class citizen on Microsoft ...

A startling milestone has been reached in Florida's war against the invasive Burmese pythons eating their way across the Everglades. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida reports it has captured and ...

Running the same uv commands outside of Apptainer works without issue on the HPC system. Running with --ignore-fakeroot-command appears to make the issue go away, though it's possible I did not run ...

Unbiased metagenomic sequencing (mNGS) is crucial for infectious disease diagnosis and epidemiological surveillance. However, its analysis requires specialized bioinformatics skills, creating barriers ...

Abstract: Apptainer (Formerly known as Singularity) is a secure, portable, and easy-to-use container system that provides absolute trust and security. It is widely used across industry and academia ...

An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...