Announcing public binaries for Spack
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 sever...
Blog Posts
2022
2021
Changes to bootstrapping in Spack v0.17
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 opt...
Podcast: Spack on CppCast
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 ex...
ECP annual meeting videos now available
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 ...
2020
Spack User Survey 2020
Results from the Spack 2020 User Survey are out! Check out our summary below.
Spack featured on The Next Platform
The Next Platform provides in-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. ...
Spack at SC20
This year SC20 is fully virtual with events and sessions conducted over two weeks. Check out the Spack lineup below.
Spack R&D 100 award featured in LLNL magazine
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 a...
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 ...
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 ...
Spack at ECP annual meeting
We’re thrilled to be part of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP), a joint effort between the DOE Office of Science and NNSA that brings several together nat...
Video: Spack at FOSDEM ‘20
FOSDEM promotes the widespread use of free and open source software. The 2020 conference took place in Brussels, Belgium, on February 1–2. The FOSDEM website...
Spack on Microsoft Azure VMs
Another HPC cloud use case! A Microsoft Tech Community blog post describes the steps for using Spack to build and install packages on the Azure cloud for HPC...
2019
Spack wins R&D 100 award
The trade journal R&D World Magazine announced the winners of its annual awards on October 31. And Spack is one of the winners! The competition recognize...
Spack wins FLC award
We’re excited to announce that Spack received a regional technology transfer award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC). The FLC has been around sinc...
Spack at SC19
SC19 kicks off this week in Denver, and there are Spack events every day. Make sure they’re all on your calendar with the list below.
Spack has a new website
Until now, spack.io has mostly been a landing page – an easy-to-remember URL with a brief description of Spack and links out to other, more important projec...
Spack on AWS cluster
Deploying an HPC cluster on Amazon Web Services might sound daunting, but it’s possible with Spack. Harvard’s Jiawei Zhuang has written a guide for standing ...