Spack
A flexible package manager for supercomputers, Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Spack is an open-source package manager designed for high-performance computing environments including supercomputers, Linux, macOS, and Windows. It supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers, making it easy to install scientific software stacks in C, C++, Fortran, Python, R, and more. Users can build software from source or use pre-built binary caches.
Spack resolves and installs software packages from source (or binary caches), allowing users to specify versions, compilers, and microarchitecture targets for reproducible builds.
HPC engineers, scientific software developers, and system administrators on supercomputers or research clusters
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
Founders
- Todd Gamblingithub
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