Spack 0.13 Released October 25, 2019

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!

Learn more:

• Spack v0.13.0 release notes
• Spack GitHub organization
• Spack documentation and tutorial
• Spack Video