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Date:   Tue Sep 5 11:42:31 2017 +0200

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+title: Announcing Guix-HPC
+date: 2017-09-05 12:00
+author: Ludovic Courtès, Roel Janssen, Pjotr Prins, Ricardo Wurmus
+tags: HPC Research Reproducibility Containers
+---
+
+Today, Inria, the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), and
+the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center (UBC)
+are
+[announcing a joint 
effort](https://www.inria.fr/en/centre/bordeaux/news/towards-reproducible-software-environments-in-hpc-with-guix)
 to
+consolidate GNU Guix for reproducible scientific workflows in
+high-performance computing (HPC).  The three research institutes have
+been using Guix and contributing to it.  The new effort,
+dubbed [Guix-HPC](https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/), hopes to extend
+Guix functionality to better address the needs of HPC users, as well as
+augmenting its package collection.
+
+Guix was not initially designed with HPC in mind.  However, we believe
+it has many good properties both for flexible software deployment on
+clusters, and as a foundation for reproducible scientific workflows.
+The [Guix-HPC blog](https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/) will regularly
+feature articles with HPC “howtos” and stories about our achievements.
+We are thrilled by the opportunities this new effort offers!
+
+To learn more, visit
+the [Guix-HPC Web site](https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/about.html).
+
+#### About GNU Guix
+
+[GNU Guix](https://www.gnu.org/software/guix) is a transactional 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
+[respects the user's
+freedom](https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html).
+
+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 [Guile](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile) modules,
+using extensions to the [Scheme](http://schemers.org) language.  GuixSD
+offers a declarative approach to operating system configuration
+management, and is highly customizable and hackable.
+
+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, armv7, and aarch64.