Spack – a package manager for supercomputers, Linux, macOS, and Windows
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- Schedule for the first Spack User Meeting (SUM25) at HPSFCon 2025 is now live.
- SUM25 features 34 contributed talks and updates on Spack community and Spack v1.0.
- Spack is a versatile package manager for supercomputers, Linux, macOS, and Windows, supporting multiple languages and compilers.
- Spack allows building software stacks with Python, R, C, C++, or Fortran libraries and targeting specific microarchitectures.
- SUM25 is an opportunity to meet the Spack community, exchange ideas, and showcase Spack projects.
- Spack now supports binary build caches, reducing build wait times.
- Starting with Spack v0.17, the new concretizer will be default, automatically installing dependencies like Clingo from binaries.
- Spack creator Todd Gamblin and core developer Greg Becker were featured on the CppCast podcast discussing Spack's capabilities.
- Spack is the software deployment tool for the Exascale Computing Project (ECP), a collaboration between DOE Office of Science and NNSA.
- Results from the Spack 2020 User Survey are available.
- Spack was featured in Lawrence Livermore’s magazine Science & Technology Review as a winning technology from 2019.