Spack has already been removing the ugly work from building HPC codes, but with the announcement of the Spack Binary Cache—which is hosted on AWS—build and deploy times for these complicated applications will drop by 95% or more in most cases. Spack core developer Greg Becker spoke with HPC Tech Shorts to explain how it works and discuss what’s behind it. The video “Get your HPC codes installed and running in minutes using Spack’s Binary Cache” runs 15:11.