We hope you can join us for the first ever Spack User Meeting (SUM) in Chicago, IL on May 7th and 8th, 2025, as part of the first High Performance Software Foundation (HPSFcon) conference. Anyone in the Spack community: users, developers, d…
We’ve been meaning to do this for years, and it feels great to announce the schedule for the very first Spack User Meeting, SUM 2025, colocated with HPSFCon 2025. We have 34 contributed talks lined up from users and contributors all over th…
Spack was designed as a from-source package manager, but today users can stop waiting for builds. Spack has been able to create binary build caches for several years, but the onus of building the binaries has been on users: application team…
Starting with Spack v0.17, the new concretizer will be the default, and Spack will automatically install a new dependency (Clingo) from binaries. You can optionally disable this bootstrapping. Since its earliest releases, Spack has had soft…
The CppCast podcast recently hosted Spack creator Todd Gamblin and core developer Greg Becker. They discuss a range of topics including an overview of the exascale computing landscape, documentation generators, floating-point numbers and pe…
Spack is the software deployment tool of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP), a joint effort between the DOE Office of Science and NNSA that brings several together national labs. These combined forces tackle the hardware, software, and ap…
Spack has been around for a while, and we’ve always felt like we have a pretty good sense of the community through channels like GitHub, Slack, and our Google group. However, the project is getting larger, and we wanted to better understand…
The Next Platform provides in-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Against the backdrop of the Supercomputing (SC20) conference, the article titled “S…
The July issue of Lawrence Livermore’s magazine Science & Technology Review features Spack as one of the Lab’s four winning technologies from 2019. The article titled “Software Installation Simplified” covers Spack’s origins, mechanisms, ke…
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 Spack team has had to make some adjustments without being able to hold face-to-face…
The Exascale Computing Project’s Let’s Talk Exascale podcast has a new episode featuring Spack: “Flexible Package Manager Automates the Deployment of Software on Supercomputers”. Todd Gamblin describes Spack’s role in the ECP’s software sta…
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 titled “Greg Becker Scales Projects and Mountains.” Greg is a member of core the Spack