Spack
Working remotely: the Spack team
With much of the tech sphere working from home right now, a Better Scientific Software blog post describes the Spack team’s experience working remotely. The ...
Welcome to Spack!
Spack is a package manager for supercomputers, Linux, and macOS. It makes installing scientific software easy. Spack isn’t tied to a particular language; you can build a software stack in Python or R, link to libraries written in C, C++, or Fortran, and easily swap compilers or target specific microarchitectures. Learn more here.
Recent posts
Podcast: Let’s Talk Exascale
The Exascale Computing Project’s Let’s Talk Exascale podcast has a new episode featuring Spack: “Flexible Package Manager Automates the Deployment of Softwar...
Profile of Greg Becker
Spack contributor Greg Becker has many talents, not the least of which is scaling rock faces. LLNL Computing profiled this computer scientist in a piece titl...
Into a new decade: using Spack at LRZ
An account of how Spack is used on the HPC systems of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ): origins, ongoing development and outlook on the future.
Exascale watch: El Capitan
HPC centers are always prepping for the next big thing. LLNL’s El Capitan supercomputer, coming online in 2023, will help usher in the exascale era with its ...