Spack

Spack#

Spack is a flexible package manager designed to support multiple versions and configurations of software on a wide variety of platforms and environments.

Official Documentation

For a usage tutorial please see here.

Note

For more information on how to build software with Spack, please refer to the HPC2 training course.

The Spack module on Aire#

Version

Load Command

0.23

module load spack/0.23

Note

We offer Spack as a module on Aire for making quick test builds of available spack packages. For advanced usage, including making recipes for your own Spack packages, and managing Spack environments, we recommend users download their own version of Spack to their home directory - see tutorial here