[Host10] Upcoming Webinar: Reducing Technical Debt with Reproducible Containers

[IDEAS Project Outreach Lead]

The next webinar in the HPC Best Practices (http://ideas-productivity.org/events/hpc-best-practices-webinars/) series is:
Reducing Technical Debt with Reproducible Containers
1:00 - 2:00 pm ET
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Presenter: Tanu Malik (DePaul University)

Description: Computational experiments can be challenging to reproduce; researchers have to choose between pursuing a fast-paced research agenda and developing well-organized, sufficiently documented, and easily reproducible software. Like incurring fiscal debt, there are often tactical reasons to take on technical debt in scientific software—such as deferring documentation, organization, refactoring, and unit tests when pursuing a new idea or meeting a conference deadline. However, more often than not, researchers do not repay this technical debt, leading to irreproducible experiments. The webinar will describe different levels of technical debt and quantify the cost of not repaying the technical debt. The presenter will introduce isolation in containers as a powerful mechanism for reducing portability debt and describe limitations of current container tools. The presenter will introduce a vision of a reproducible container that aims to automate repayment of different types of technical
debt, and will describe the current state of this vision with three tools that use isolation, encapsulation, and monitoring to include necessary and sufficient content in the container—both in terms of software and data, and describe the contents of the container. Finally, the presenter will show results of using reproducible containers on domain science and HPC use cases, and provide guidance.
Participation is free, but registration is required.
Register (https://exascaleproject.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/vJIsf-qsrzoiG_wS4H6BK9I1bFC0l4NzWO0)
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Past webinars are archived at our web site (http://ideas-productivity.org/events/hpc-best-practices-webinars/) .  The most recent addition is:
* Testing and Code Review Practices in Research Software Development (https://ideas-productivity.org/events/hpc-best-practices-webinars/#webinar044)  (September, 2020)

To suggest future topics, please email us at IDEASProductivity at gmail.com (mailto:IDEASProductivity at gmail.com) .
The Best Practices for HPC Software Developers (https://ideas-productivity.org/events/hpc-best-practices-webinars/) webinar series is presented by the IDEAS Productivity (http://ideas-productivity.org/) project, in partnership with the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (http://www.alcf.anl.gov/) (ALCF), National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (http://www.nersc.gov/) (NERSC), Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/) (OLCF), and the DOE Exascale Computing Project (https://exascaleproject.org/) (ECP).

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