Blog — Reproducibility

Adventures on the quest for long-term reproducible deployment

Mart 13, 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

Haziran 11, 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

Ocak 14, 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

Ekim 25, 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

Mart 29, 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!

Temmuz 24, 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

Mayıs 9, 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

Eylül 5, 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…