Thematic session at HiPEAC CSW "Is Current Research on Heterogeneous HPC Platforms inline with Real-world Application needs?"

My colleagues Marisa Gill and Chris Fench are organizing an interesting
thematic session and a panel "Is Current Research on Heterogeneous HPC Platforms
inline with Real-world Application needs?".

It will be held on the 15th of May during HiPEAC Computing Systems Week
in Barcelona. Join us there:

http://www.hipeac.net/add/res/102/467
http://www.hipeac.net/csw/2014/barcelona

Weekend digest of tools and licenses related to reproducible R&D

Dear colleagues,

Here is a small summary of tools and licenses that may be useful
for reproducible research and experimentation that I assembled
after SEA'14 conference in Boulder:

* CDE tool: automatically create portable Linux applications
  with all dependencies:
  http://www.pgbovine.net/cde.html

* Docker tool: pack, ship and run applications as a lightweight container
  https://www.docker.io

* The IPython Notebook: a web-based interactive computational
  environment where you can combine code execution, text,
  mathematics, plots and rich media into a single document:
  http://ipython.org/notebook.html

* CRAPL license: promote academic code sharing even if it's ugly -
  it's an interesting concept, though not helping my research problems
  at this moment since I need (and promote) not just code and data
  sharing but also their APIs and meta-description to be reusable...
  http://matt.might.net/articles/crapl

Have a good weekend,
Grigori

Digest on reproducible research initiatives

Dear colleagues,

 

Just wanted to share a few links related to reproducible research:

 

* Many interesting software projects for research reproducibility

have been presented at the Collaborations Workshop 2014:
http://www.software.ac.uk/collaborations-workshop-2014-cw14-software-your-reproducible-research/cw14-agenda
All presentations should be available soon!

 

* Prof. Carole Globe presented a nice overview of software projects for reproducibility of research and experimentation:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/67n49i9k3cb28mo/GOBLE-CW2014.ppt

 

* Prof. Globe mentioned yet another interesting initiative on reproducible research:

http://reproduciblescience.org

 

* Interesting and a bit controversial article about scientific peer reviewing:

http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/three-myths-about-scientific-peer-review

 

Hope of it will of any interest and take care,

Grigori