部落格 - Reproducibility

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…