Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Gregory Kurtzer about Singularity. Singularity allows a non-privileged user to "swap out" the operating system on the host for one they control. So if the host system is running RHEL6 but your application runs in Ubuntu, you can create an Ubuntu image, install your applications into that image, copy the image to another host, and run your application on that host in it's native Ubuntu environment!

Gregory Kurtzer has created many open source initiatives related to HPC namely: Centos Linux, Warewulf, Perceus, and most recently Singularity. Currently Gregory serves as a member of the OpenHPC Technical Steering Committee and is the IT HPC Systems Architect and Software Developer for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Singularity: http://singularity.lbl.gov/GitHub: https://github.com/gmkurtzer/singularityTwitter: https://twitter.com/gmkurtzer / https://twitter.com/SingularityApp