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Hi Benda, |
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Thanks a lot for all the hard work on this! I hope your abstract gets |
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through, and of course your paper will get accepted. Needless to say |
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I'd like to help you where possible. I think you got it all covered, |
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but feel free to reach out when necessary. |
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Fabian |
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On 12-05-2019 23:42:12 +0800, Benda Xu wrote: |
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> Dear all, |
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> I am going to to submit an abstract on the use case of Gentoo Prefix to |
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> Conference on Computing in High Energy & Nuclear Physics, to be held in |
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> Australia. Please find the draft below. Comments before May 19 will be |
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> reflected in the submitted version. |
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> By default I am going to list the Prefix team as authors. Please reply |
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> me if you want to add or remove yourself from the author list. |
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> Thanks! |
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> Benda |
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> Gentoo Prefix as a physics software manager |
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> In big physics experiments, as simulation, reconstruction and |
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> analysis become more sophisticated, scientific reproducibility is |
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> not a trivial task. Software is one of the biggest |
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> challenges. Modularity is a common sense of software engineering to |
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> facilitate quality and reusability of code. However, that often |
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> introduces nested dependencies not obvious for physicists to work |
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> with. Package manager is the widely practised solution to organize |
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> dependencies systematically. |
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> Portage from Gentoo Linux is both robust and flexible, and is highly |
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> regarded by the free operating system community. In the form of |
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> Gentoo Prefix, portage can be deployed by a normal user into a |
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> directory prefix, on a workstation, cloud or supercomputing node. |
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> Software is described by its build recipes along with dependency |
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> relations. Real world use cases of Gentoo Prefix in neutrino and |
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> dark matter experiments will be demonstrated, to show how physicists |
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> could benefit from existing tools of proven superiority to guarantee |
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> reproducibility in simulation, reconstruction and analysis of big |
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> physics experiments. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |