2024-09-12 Researcher-Facing Call: Spack, A Package Manager For Supercomputers

Spack: A package manager for supercomputers
Todd Gamblin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Thu Sept 12th, 2024, 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11a MT/ 10a PT/ 8a HT

Spack is a popular tool for managing complex software stacks, and it is now sustained by a large and active open-source community. Designed to adapt to many workflows for end-users, developers, and facility staff, Spack is used by researchers and HPC centers around the world to simplify dependency management and software integration. This talk will start with a brief overview of Spack’s capabilities. Followed by a description of how Spack “environments” can serve as a basis for many devops workflows, and how Spack’s binary packaging features interact with OCI registries. Finally, we’ll give a preview of our roadmap and plans for Spack v0.23, due to be released this November at Supercomputing 2024.

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