Guix channels let communities develop and maintain their own package collection at their own pace. As users of Guix in high-performance computing (HPC) and computational sciences, we have been developing several such channels. Those channels live under the Guix-Science umbrella, which recently moved to Codeberg. Over the last couple of months, we’ve been using this migration as an opportunity to strengthen scientific channels, both socially—by welcoming more contributions—and technically—by setting up infrastructure to improve the contribution and maintenance workflows.

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Having promoted Guix as one of the tools to support reproducible research workflows, we are happy that it is now officially presented as one way to produce and review software artifacts that accompany articles submitted to SuperComputing 2024 (SC24), the leading HPC conference. In this post we look at what this entails and reflect on the role of reproducible software deployment on conference artifact evaluation.

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We are pleased to publish the sixth Guix-HPC annual report. Launched in 2017, Guix-HPC is a collaborative effort to bring reproducible software deployment to scientific workflows and high-performance computing (HPC). Guix-HPC builds upon the GNU Guix software deployment tool to empower HPC practitioners and scientists who need reliability, flexibility, and reproducibility; it aims to support Open Science and reproducible research.

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Back in November, the First Workshop on Reproducible Software Environments for Research and High-Performance Computing was held in Montpellier, France. Coming from France primarily but also from Czechia, Germany, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, and the United Kingdom to name a few, 120 people—scientists, high-performance computing (HPC) practitioners, system administrators, and enthusiasts alike—came to listen to the talks, attend the tutorials, and talk to one another.

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We’re excited to announce the First Workshop on Reproducible Software Environments for Research and High-Performance Computing (HPC), which will take place in Montpellier, France, on November 8–10th, 2023! The preliminary program is on-line, and now’s the time for you to register!

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Two weeks ago, on June 27th, we held an second on-line hackathon on reproducible research issues. This hackathon was a collaborative effort to bring GNU Guix to concrete examples inspired by contributions to the online journal ReScience C.

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It's time to run the second Reproducible Research hackathon! The first one was from... 2020, already! The date: Tuesday June, 27th. Start: 9h30 (CEST) End: 17h30.

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It’s been ten years of GNU Guix! To celebrate, and to share knowledge and enthusiasm, a birthday event will take place on September 16–18th, 2022, in Paris, France. The program is being finalized, but you can already register!

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We are organizing the first French-speaking workshop on the reproducibility of software environments for scientists, engineers, and system administrators. The workshop will take place on-line on May 17–18th, 2021 from 09:00 to 12:30 CEST. Stay tuned for more reproducible research events!

Nous avons le plaisir d’annoncer le premier atelier francophone sur la reproductibilité des environnements logiciels, qui aura lieu en ligne les matinées des 17 et 18 mai 2021 — programme et informations pratiques sur la page de l’événement.

Cet atelier fait suite à l’intérêt porté par la communauté francophone du calcul scientifique aux questions de reproductibilité, notamment lors de l’Action Nationale de Formation UST4HPC 2021 et avec la journée reproductibilité de la Société Informatique de France (SIF) qui aura lieu le 10 mai. Elle s’inscrit aussi dans le cadre des activités du groupe Guix-HPC.

Au programme, sept retours d’expériences de scientifiques et de responsables d’administration système sur le déploiement logiciel dans les centres de calcul avec Guix mais aussi Spack ou module, et sur la création de pipelines reproductibles pour la recherche avec Debian, Org-Mode et Guix.

Ces exposés seront suivis d’échanges sur les attentes et propositions de chacun·e, aussi bien du point de vue scientifique qu’en termes d’administration de centre de calcul.

La participation est libre et gratuite mais nous vous invitons toutefois à vous inscrire.

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Last week, on July 3rd, we held an on-line hackathon on reproducible research issues. This hackathon was a collaborative effort to bring GNU Guix to concrete examples inspired by to contributions the recent Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge organized by ReScience.

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Several submissions to the recent Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge organized by ReScience took advantage of GNU Guix, as discussed earlier.

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This post marks the debut of Guix-HPC, an effort to optimize GNU Guix for reproducible scientific workflows in high-performance computing (HPC). Guix-HPC is a joint effort between Inria, the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), and the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center (UBC). Ludovic Courtès, Ricardo Wurmus, Roel Janssen, and Pjotr Prins are driving the effort in each of these institutes, each one focusing specific areas of interest within this overall Guix-HPC effort. Our institutes have in common that they are users of HPC, and that, as scientific research institutes, they have an interest in using reproducible methodologies to carry out their research.

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