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 <l...@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 >
