Popper is a tool for conducting scientific explorations and writing academic articles following a DevOps approach. Popper allows researchers to automate the execution and validation of (computational and data-intensive) experimentation workflows. To learn more about Popper you can:
- Read our blog.
- Download our publications.
- , chat or open an issue.
- Read the official documentation.
- Install the CLI tool and go over the quickstart guide.
We are currently working with researchers in many domains to create reusable Popper tasks and workflows. If you are interested in contributing but are not certain on how to start, please feel free to contact us.
Upcoming Events:
- 2019/05/19: Ivo Jimenez will present at Cephalocon Barcelona’19 on the work by UCSC students on automating Ceph experimentation workflows using Popper.
- 2019/08/21: A hands-on tutorial on Popper will be part of this year’s FORCE11 FSCI program, the first with updated content for the Popper 2.x series!
News
- 2019/03/13: Popper 2.0 released. Read the announcement in our blog.
- 2019/01/20: Popper project lead Ivo Jimenez selected as a CROSS Incubator Fellow.
- 2018/04/01: Popper project lead Ivo Jimenez, is one of four computer scientists (and the only graduate student) recognized by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project in its inaugural class of Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellows.
Acknowledgements
Popper is being developed at UC Santa Cruz and is supported in part by the National Science Foundation (awards OAC-1450488 and OAC-1836650), the Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS), Sandia National Laboratories, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
How to Cite Popper
Ivo Jimenez, Michael Sevilla, Noah Watkins, Carlos Maltzahn, Jay Lofstead, Kathryn Mohror, Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau. The Popper Convention: Making Reproducible Systems Evaluation Practical. In 2017 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW), 1561–70, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/IPDPSW.2017.157.
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