Reproducibility Papers at eScience 2016

CCL students presented two papers at the IEEE 12th International Conference on eScience on the theme of reproducibility in computational science:

• Haiyan Meng presented Conducting Reproducible Research with Umbrella: Tracking, Creating, and Preserving Execution Environments, which describes how the Umbrella framework  is used to create a precise specification of computational environment, software, and data for reproducible execution for epidemiology and high energy physics codes.  
• Peter Ivie presented PRUNE: A Preserving Run Environment for Reproducible Computing which describes PRUNE, a workflow system that tracks both data and executions in a way that can be compactly named and shared.  This allows one to uniquely identify an execution in a way that others can track the complete provenance, or re-execute it if desired.

Congrads to Haiyan for winning a Best of Conference award for her paper:

CCL Workshop 2016

The 2016 CCL Workshop on Scalable Scientific Computing was held on October 19-20 at the University of Notre Dame.  We offered tutorials on Makeflow, Work Queue, and Parrot. and gave highlights of the many new capabilities relating to reproducibility and container technologies. Our user community gave presentations describing how these technologies are used to accelerate discovery in genomics, high energy physics, molecular dynamics, and more. 
Everyone got together to share a meal, solve problems, and generate new ideas. Thanks to everyone who participated, and see you next year!