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[Ludovic Courtès]

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Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
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.
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+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.
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+== 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].
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+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  [...]
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+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.