Café Guix - Introduction to the reproducibility of computing environments: building packages and links with Software Heritage
Mar 18, 2024
Live + remote
27 March 2024 from 1.30 pm to 2.30 pm
Please note that this session will take place during the
Days of the Reproducible Research Network
organised from 26 to 28 March in Grenoble, which is not the usual day or link!
The video link:
https://videos.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/live/my_events/.
To ask your questions a pad is available at this link: https://mensuel.framapad.org/p/cafeguix27022024-a6iy?lang=fr.
This session will be led by Pierre-Antoine Bouttier (GRICAD) and Ludovic Courtès (Inria).
How do you reproduce the software environment of your experiment, on different machines and
at different times? This question lies at the heart of the reproducibility of calculations,
and that’s what Guix seeks to answer. In this session, we will first look at how to freeze your
Guix software environment and how this goes beyond a list of software names and versions,
and above all, how to re-deploy this environment with the incredible guix time-machine.
This is all very nice, but it’s clear that it may no longer work if the software source code disappears.
We’ll see how integration with Software Heritage (almost!) eliminates this problem.
As a reminder, Café Guix is a place and time for informal, French-speaking exchange around the Guix software environment manager. Students, researchers, system administrators, IT support staff from labs or computer centers - everyone is welcome to join us for this one-hour monthly meeting, where we can discuss questions raised by everyone about Guix and its use in the broadest sense.
You will find all the information concerning the “Cafés Guix” here: https://hpc.guix.info/events/2024/café-guix/.