Tuesday, May 18th, 2021 9:00-10:00 Anirban Pal, Assistant Professor West Texas A&M University, apal@wtamu.edu Back to Resbaz HackMD Directory What is Spack? Spack is a package management tool designed to support multiple versions and configurations of software on a wide variety of platforms and environments. It was designed for large supercomputing centers, where many users and application teams share common installations of software on clusters with exotic architectures, using libraries that do not have a standard ABI. Spack is non-destructive: installing a new version does not break existing installations, so many configurations can coexist on the same system. Most importantly, Spack is simple. It offers a simple spec syntax so that users can specify versions and configuration options concisely. Spack is also simple for package authors: package files are written in pure Python, and specs allow package authors to maintain a single file for many different builds of the same package. (https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) Pre-requisites: Familiarity with Linux command line, and some basic exposure to compiling software on linux systems.

Dr. Anirban Pal, Asst. Professor of Mechanical Engineering Time, Date: 4:00-5:00 CT, 04/14/2023 Location: ECS 142 and Zoom Pre-requisites: Ability to read and type Recommended: Familiarity with Linux command line and Python3 Zoom link: Join Zoom Meeting https://wtamu.zoom.us/j/94667371336?pwd=clhVbmRjckMvSTB0M2VVbWh3clh0UT09 Meeting ID: 946 6737 1336