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commit 0c0c6631a3927ce5ac5acfb6cb7ca0c9d9e62087
Author: Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Jul 23 11:30:53 2015 +0200
reppar: Talk of "full system images" to include Docker.
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doc/reppar-2015/reproducible-hpc.skb | 4 ++--
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@@ -206,8 +206,8 @@ methodology for reproducible research experiments in HPC.
To address
the software-environment reproducibility problem they propose two
unsatisfying approaches: one is to write down the
version numbers of the dependencies being used, which is insufficient,
-and the other is to save and reuse full virtual machines (VMs), which poses a
-real challenge for performance and makes verifiability
+and the other is to save and reuse full system images, which
+makes verifiability
impractical,(---)peers would have to download large images and would be
unable to combine them with their own software environment.])
(p [Yet, common practices on HPC systems hinder reproducibility.
