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		pxc on Aug 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenTF announces fork of Terraform I wasn't talking about NixOS or GuixSD, or OS installation. I was talking about tools that let you run ancient software on modern distros. With Nix and Guix you don't have to hold your whole OS back just to run 'ancient software'.

bayindirh on Aug 26, 2023 [–]

We use user mode containers for that. Mostly Apptainer. It supports MPI, GPU and other bells and whistles that we need.

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