Spack Community BoF

Spack is a package manager for scientific computing, with a rapidly growing open source community. With over 1,100 contributors from academia, industry, and government laboratories, Spack has a wide range of use cases, from small-scale development on laptops and clusters, to software release management for the U.S. Exascale Computing Project, to user software deployment on 6 of the top 10 supercomputer sites in the world. At this BOF, Spack core developers will give updates on the state of the Spack community, and on new features such as Spack container generation, Spack's new concretization algorithms, new compiler dependency models, and gitlab continuous integration pipelines. We will also conduct an interactive survey with the audience and open the floor for guided discussion as we review the results. All are invited to provide feedback, request features, and participate in the discussion! Users will be encouraged to present specific use-cases they think may be relevant to the larger community. Help us make HPC software installation simple!