Macaulay2

Description

Macaulay2 is a  algebraic geometry and commutative algebra software. Its creation and development has been funded by the National Science Foundation since 1992.

Macaulay2 on the cluster

Create a Singularity container

Macaulay2 is available on the cluster via Singularity containers. We recommend working on a compute node. You can get to a compute node by requesting an interactive job. For example

salloc --partition test --time 01:00:00 --cpus-per-task 4 --mem-per-cpu 2G

You can pull (i.e. download) the Macaulay2 container from DockerHub with the command

singularity pull docker://unlhcc/macaulay2:latest

If you get this error

FATAL: While making image from oci registry: error fetching image: failed to get checksum for docker://unlhcc/macaulay2:latest

You will need to create a DockerHub account, then run the following singularity pull command. It will prompt for your DockerHub username and password:

singularity pull --docker-login docker://unlhcc/macaulay2:latest
Enter Docker/OCI registry username: 
Enter Docker / OCI registry password:

Run Macaulay2

Start a shell inside the Singularity container

singularity shell macaulay2_latest.sif

The prompt will change to Singularity>. Then, type M2 to start Macualay2. You should see a prompt with i1:

Singularity> M2
Macaulay2, version 1.24.05
--storing configuration for package FourTiTwo in /n/home01/jharvard/.Macaulay2/init-FourTiTwo.m2
--storing configuration for package Topcom in /n/home01/jharvard/.Macaulay2/init-Topcom.m2
with packages: ConwayPolynomials, Elimination, IntegralClosure, InverseSystems, LLLBases, PrimaryDecomposition, ReesAlgebra, TangentCone,
Truncations

i1 :

For Macaulay2 examples, visit Macaulay2 documentation.

For more details on how to use Singularity on the cluster, see FASRC’s Singularity documentation.

Resources

• FASRC’s Singularity documentation
• Macaulay2 official website
• Macaulay2 documentation
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln Holland Computing Center DockerHub