Spack

28/05/2021 59 min Episodio 301
Spack

Episode Synopsis

Rob and Jason are joined by Todd Gamblin and Greg Becker. They first discuss a documentation tool, a blog post about floating point numbers, and yet another post about ABI changes. Then they talk to Todd and Greg from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) who both work on Spack, the popular open source package manager aimed at HPC.
News

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Links

Spack
Spack on GitHub
Spack Tutorial
Spack Slack
Build all the things with Spack: a package manager for more than C++ - Todd Gamblin - CppCon 2020
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