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Adventures on the quest for long-term reproducible deployment
2024-03-13
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
2021-06-11
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
2020-01-14
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
2019-10-25
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
2019-03-29
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!
2018-07-24
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
2018-05-09
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
2017-09-05
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…