Blogg — Research
Source code archiving in Guix: new publication
31. maj, 2024
We are glad to announce the publication of a new research paper entitled Source Code Archiving to the Rescue of Reproducible Deployment for the ACM…
Adventures on the quest for long-term reproducible deployment
13. mars, 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 computations with Guix
14. januari, 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…
Connecting reproducible deployment to a long-term source code archive
29. mars, 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…
Paper on reproducible bioinformatics pipelines with Guix
9. maj, 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…
Back from GPCE
1. november, 2017
Last week, I was at GPCE 2017 , an academic conference focused on generative programming techniques. I presented Code Staging in GNU Guix , a paper that discusses the…
Coming events
17. oktober, 2017
Guix will be present on a few venues in the coming weeks: On October 23rd, I (Ludovic Courtès) will be at GPCE , an academic conference co-located…
Back from RSE 2017
11. september, 2017
Last week, I was in Manchester, UK, to attend the second conference of Research Software Engineers, or RSE 2017 for short. I presented on the topic of…
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…
Back from CUFP 2016
24. september, 2016
The Commercial Users of Functional Programming 2016 Workshop concluded. There is no video recording this time, but you can download the slides from…
Back from the Scheme Workshop 2016
18. september, 2016
The 17th Annual Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop 2016 concluded. There is no video recording this time, but you can download the slides …
Reproducible and User-Controlled Software Environments in HPC with Guix
1. juli, 2015
Our paper entitled Reproducible and User-Controlled Software Environments in HPC with Guix was accepted for RepPar , a workshop on reproducibility in parallel computing: …
The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model
18. januari, 2006
Eelco Dolstra's seminal PhD thesis about the Nix package manager, which Guix is based on . Download (PDF). …