Spack is a flexible, configurable, Python-based, and open-source HPC package manager. Spack automates the installation and fine-tuning of simulations and libraries, operating on a wide variety of HPC platforms and enabling users to build many code configurations.
Spack grew by over 700 packages in the past year – now more than 3,500 total – and the project now has over 450 contributors. v0.13 is a major release:
- environments behaving more like virtualenv/conda
- combinatorial environments for facility deployment
- ability to build easily navigable symlink trees environments
- many new commands/options
- continuous integration/build farm support
- simplified package syntax for specifying build/run environment modifications
- separate tutorial repo
- and much more!
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