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Krishna Kant Singh, Eric Müller, Eleni Mathioulaki, Wouter Klijn, Lena Oden

The authors package a complete MPI stack with neuroscience software in an Apptainer image and connect it to cluster resources through Slurm and PMIx. The same image ran unmodified on Karolina and JURECA-DC. In two-node NCCL AllReduce tests, container and native bandwidth agreed within 0.09% and 0.01%, respectively, but GPU Arbor runs were 12–19% slower, for an unresolved cause.

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