pre-vacation digest on reproducibility

Dear colleagues,

Here is my pre-vacations' digest on collaborative and reproducible research in computer engineering:

=== Common benchmarks ===

* PRACE HPC benchmark (Unified European Applications Benchmark Suite)
** Link: http://www.prace-ri.eu/ueabs
** Description: http://www.prace-ri.eu/IMG/pdf/d7.4_3ip.pdf

=== Online courses ===

Reproducible Research as a part of the "Data Science" Specialization:

https://www.coursera.org/course/repdata

=== Events ===

* 2nd Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE2) (to be held in conjunction with SC14, Sunday, 16 November 2014, New Orleans, LA, USA)
http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe2

=== Articles and presentations ===

* Predatory publishing:
  http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/32426/title/Predatory-Publishing
* "Begin with an Author's response to Reviews" - proposal to submit past reviews along with articles
  Only for ACM DL subscribers:
  http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1536616.1536619&coll=portal&dl=ACM
* Three myths about scientific peer review:
  http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/three-myths-about-scientific-peer-review

=== Blogs ===

* http://www.reproducibleresearch.net/blog

=== Misc repositories ===
Public repositories in other sciences:

* (GIGA)n DB:
  http://gigadb.org/site/index
* Data Intensive Biology:
  http://galaxyproject.org
* GalaxyZoo (classification of galaxies)
  http://www.galaxyzoo.org/?lang=en

=== Tools ===
* R-studio (Open source and enterprise-ready professional software for R)
  http://www.rstudio.com
* Codelab (an experimental platform for collaboration and competition)
  https://www.codalab.org
* FigShare (managing research in a cloud)
  http://figshare.com
* Taverna (designing and executing workflows)
  http://www.taverna.org.uk
* BOINC (open-source software for volunteer computing and grid computing)
  http://boinc.berkeley.edu

Further info is at http://c-mind.org/reproducibility

Take care,
Grigori