diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ec52134d64cdfa2d845cea868441f27771c304a5..2db39c1fde7f59070f6d04f3e156e48923dc482e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,3 +17,10 @@ If you have suggestions or want to have support for any project/cluster open an
     * _dashboards_
         * specification of dashboards with [grafanalib](https://github.com/weaveworks/grafanalib)
         * upload to grafana instance
+
+# GUIX Manifest
+
+    - this can be export as a singularity container:
+    - `guix pack -m cb-util/manifest.scm -S /bin=bin -S /etc=etc -S /lib=lib -f squashfs`
+    - But the LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set correct
+    - so `export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LIBRARY_PATH`
diff --git a/manifest.scm b/manifest.scm
index e6fe88164fdd08f6622a726d5ef6becd835c3036..97faf75f0e8eee0b3f45a4d6b427417bd40cf155 100644
--- a/manifest.scm
+++ b/manifest.scm
@@ -119,21 +119,18 @@
                  (description "Code Generation for Lattice Boltzmann Methods")
                  (license #f)))
 
-
 (concatenate-manifests
   (list
     (specifications->manifest
       (list
         "bash-minimal"
-        ;; "proot-static"
         "grep"
         "which"
         "coreutils"
+        "binutils"
         "pkg-config"
-        ;; "libtool"
+        "libtool"
 
-        "glibc-locales"
-        "glibc-bootstrap"
         "openssh"
         "automake"
         "cmake"
@@ -147,6 +144,9 @@
         "python-jinja2"
         "python-py-cpuinfo"
         "pybind11"
+
+        "slurm@21.08.8"
+
         ;; needs that extra channel guix-hpc, currently I do not know to encode that here in that manifest file
         "likwid"