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Re: Building a software toolchain that works
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Yasuaki Kudo |
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Re: Building a software toolchain that works |
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Tue, 15 Mar 2022 21:32:23 +0900 |
Hi,
I posted something similar recently but I know there are 100s of banks and
hedge funds alike that run daily calculations on arrays of servers , and they
have very tricky changes in both software and data, daily.
Do you think Guix(HPC - i don't know what specializations go there 😅) can be
the prime tool for the job?
-Yasu
> On Mar 15, 2022, at 17:25, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Olivier Dion via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System
> distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> On another note, what I find fascinating is why Guix and Nix are not
>> more used in academic papers. A quick search on the Compendex database
>> gives me only a handful of papers referencing Guix, mostly all from
>> Ludovic. I simply can't understand this. You have a way to factor out
>> the toolchain from the equation of your research's resuls -- making it
>> trivial to reproduce -- and yet every papers that I read is using some
>> Ubuntu LTS or Fedora as their build and testing environment.
>
> This is what we’re pushing as part of the Guix-HPC effort¹. Ricardo’s
> research team, for instance, has published bioinfo papers that build on
> Guix for reproducibility. Colleagues of mine in HPC (linear algebra and
> run-time systems) are also starting to do this.
>
> That’s still very much niche, but there’s growing awareness of how tools
> like Guix can help build reproducible research workflows. The next thing
> for us is to provide tools and documents to make it more approachable.
>
> Ludo’.
>
> ¹ https://hpc.guix.info
>
- Re: Building a software toolchain that works, (continued)
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- Re: Building a software toolchain that works, Ryan Prior, 2022/03/16
- Re: Building a software toolchain that works, Yasuaki Kudo, 2022/03/16
- Re: Building a software toolchain that works, Maxime Devos, 2022/03/17
- Re: Building a software toolchain that works, David Arroyo, 2022/03/17
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