Blogo — Reproducibility

Adventures on the quest for long-term reproducible deployment

13-a de Marto 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-a de Junio 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-a de Januaro 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-a de Oktobro 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-a de Marto 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-a de Julio 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-a de Majo 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-a de Septembro 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…