Introducing Guix to HPC at my institution

[Sébastien Lerique]

Hi all,

I'm interested in introducing Guix to the HPC team at my 
institution. There's quite some content on the Guix-HPC blog [0], 
but I was wondering if people here have stories about how such 
conversations went for them, which arguments worked best, which 
didn't.

As a first step I would like to discuss with the sysadmins if they 
would consider activating user namespaces so users can play 
around. Aside from [1] and [2], are there any updated discussions 
about this topic, e.g. why to do it or why not?

Best,
Sébastien


[0] https://hpc.guix.info/blog/
[1] 
https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2017/10/using-guix-without-being-root/
[2] 
https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2017/09/reproducibility-and-root-privileges/