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Author: Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org>
Date: Wed Jul 1 12:24:49 2015 +0200
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+Our paper entitled [https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01161771/en Reproducible and
User-Controlled Software Environments in HPC with Guix] was accepted for
[http://reppar.org/ RepPar], a workshop on reproducibility in parallel
computing:
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+ Support teams of high-performance computing (HPC) systems often find
themselves between a rock and a hard place: on one hand, they understandably
administrate these large systems in a conservative way, but on the other hand,
they try to satisfy their users by deploying up-to-date tool chains as well as
libraries and scientific software. HPC system users often have no guarantee
that they will be able to reproduce results at a later point in time, even on
the same system—software may hav [...]
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+The paper can be thought of as a followup to the recent
[http://elephly.net/posts/2015-04-17-gnu-guix.html experience report] by
Ricardo Wurmus.
+
+We believe package management and reproducibility are key topics for HPC
research. We are glad to have this opportunity to discuss the subject with
researchers of the field.
+
+== About GNU Guix ==
+
+[http://www.gnu.org/software/guix GNU Guix] is a functional package manager
for the GNU system. The Guix System Distribution or GuixSD is an advanced
distribution of the GNU system that relies on GNU Guix and
[http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html respects
the user's freedom].
+
+In addition to standard package management features, Guix supports
transactional upgrades and roll-backs, unprivileged package management,
per-user profiles, and garbage collection. Guix uses low-level mechanisms from
the Nix package manager, except that packages are defined as native
[http://www.gnu.org/software/guile Guile] modules, using extensions to the
[http://schemers.org Scheme] language. GuixSD offers a declarative approach to
operating system configuration management, and is [...]
+
+GuixSD can be used on an i686 or x86_64 machine. It is also possible to use
Guix on top of an already installed GNU/Linux system, including on mips64el and
armv7.
