Standing Together for Reproducibility in Large-Scale Computing: Report on reproducibility@XSEDE

Doug James; Nancy Wilkins-Diehr; Victoria Stodden; Dirk Colbry; Carlos Rosales; Mark Fahey; Justin Shi; Rafael F. Silva; Kyo Lee; Ralph Roskies; Laurence Loewe; Susan Lindsey; Rob Kooper; Lorena Barba; David Bailey; Jonathan Borwein; Oscar Corcho; Ewa Deelman; Michael Dietze; Benjamin Gilbert; Jan Harkes; Seth Keele; Praveen Kumar; Jong Lee; Erika Linke; Richard Marciano; Luigi Marini; Chris Mattman; Dave Mattson; Kenton McHenry; Robert McLay; Sheila Miguez; Barbara Minsker; Maria Perez-Hernandez; Dan Ryan; Mats Rynge; Idafen Santana-Perez; Mahadev Satyanarayanan; Gloriana St. Clair; Keith Webster; Elvind Hovig; Daniel S. Katz; Sophie Kay; Geir Sandve; David Skinner; Gabrielle Allen; John Cazes; Kym Won Cho; Jim Fonseca; Lorraine Hwang; Lars Koesterke; Pragnesh Patel; Line Pouchard; Ed Seidel; Isuru Suriarachchi

arXiv · 1412.5557

Standing Together for Reproducibility in Large-Scale Computing: Report on reproducibility@XSEDE

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This is the final report on reproducibility@xsede, a one-day workshop held in conjunction with XSEDE14, the annual conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). The workshop's discussion-oriented agenda focused on reproducibility in large-scale computational research. Two important themes capture the spirit of the workshop submissions and discussions: (1) organizational stakeholders, especially supercomputer centers, are in a unique position to promote, enable, and support reproducible research; and (2) individual researchers should conduct each experiment as though someone will replicate that experiment. Participants documented numerous issues, questions, technologies, practices, and potentially promising initiatives emerging from the discussion, but also highlighted four areas of particular interest to XSEDE: (1) documentation and training that promotes reproducible research; (2) system-level tools that provide build- and run-time information at the level of the individual job; (3) the need to model best practices in research collaborations involving XSEDE staff; and (4) continued work on gateways and related technologies. In addition, an intriguing question emerged from the day's interactions: would there be value in establishing an annual award for excellence in reproducible research?

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Doug James, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, Victoria Stodden, Dirk Colbry, Carlos Rosales, Mark Fahey, Justin Shi, Rafael F. Silva, Kyo Lee, Ralph Roskies, Laurence Loewe, Susan Lindsey, Rob Kooper, Lorena Barba, David Bailey, Jonathan Borwein, Oscar Corcho, Ewa Deelman, Michael Dietze, Benjamin Gilbert, Jan Harkes, Seth Keele, Praveen Kumar, Jong Lee, Erika Linke, Richard Marciano, Luigi Marini, Chris Mattman, Dave Mattson, Kenton McHenry, Robert McLay, Sheila Miguez, Barbara Minsker, Maria Perez-Hernandez, Dan Ryan, Mats Rynge, Idafen Santana-Perez, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Gloriana St. Clair, Keith Webster, Elvind Hovig, Daniel S. Katz, Sophie Kay, Geir Sandve, David Skinner, Gabrielle Allen, John Cazes, Kym Won Cho, Jim Fonseca, Lorraine Hwang, Lars Koesterke, Pragnesh Patel, Line Pouchard, Ed Seidel, Isuru Suriarachchi. 2014-12-17. Standing Together for Reproducibility in Large-Scale Computing: Report on reproducibility@XSEDE. https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.5557

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