Blog — Reproducibility
Adventures on the quest for long-term reproducible deployment
13. März 2024
Rebuilding software five years later, how hard can it be? It can’t be that hard, especially when you pride yourself on having a tool that can …
Reproducible data processing pipelines
11. Juni 2021
Last week, we at Guix-HPC published videos of a workshop on reproducible software environments we organized on-line. The videos are well worth watching—especially if you’re into reproducible…
Reproducible computations with Guix
14. Januar 2020
This post is about reproducible computations, so let's start with a computation. A short, though rather uninteresting, C program is a good starting point. It computes π in three different…
Guix Profiles in Practice
25. Oktober 2019
Note: An updated version of this article is available in the brand new cookbook . Guix provides a very useful feature that may be…
Connecting reproducible deployment to a long-term source code archive
29. März 2019
GNU Guix can be used as a “package manager” to install and upgrade software packages as is familiar to GNU/Linux users, or as an environment manager, but it can also provision…
Multi-dimensional transactions and rollbacks, oh my!
24. Juli 2018
One of the highlights of version 0.15.0 was the overhaul of guix pull , the command that updates Guix and its package collection. In Debian terms,…
Paper on reproducible bioinformatics pipelines with Guix
9. Mai 2018
I’m happy to announce that the bioinformatics group at the Max Delbrück Center that I’m working with has released a preprint of a paper on reproducibility with the…
Announcing Guix-HPC
5. September 2017
Today, Inria, the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), and the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center (UBC) are announcing a joint effort to consolidate GNU Guix for reproducible scientific workflows in high-performance…