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

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 ...