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A flexible package manager designed to support multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
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So proud to be recognized as the Readers' Choice for Best HPC Collaboration in HPCwire!

Thank you once again to everyone who voted, and everyone who visited us at SC this week! 💚 💙 ❤️
November 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Spack v1.1.0 and spack-packages v2025.11.0 are out!

🥳Features:
🏗️ Compiler control (unmixing, %%)
📦 Improved externals
⬇️ Git fetching
😌 Configurable config

👩🏻‍🔬Experimental:
👩🏻‍💻 New parallel console UI
🏎️ Concretization caching

More here!
github.com/spack/spack/...
Release v1.1.0 (2025-11-14) · spack/spack
v1.1.0 features major improvements to compiler handling and configuration management, a significant refactoring of externals, and exciting new experimental features like a console UI for parallel i...
github.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Join us in Chicago in March, when we'll hold the second in-person Spack User Meeting in conjunction with HPSFCon 2026!

Stay tuned for details! #hpc #hpsf #spack
Great news! The date & location is locked in for #HPSFCon 2026. Save the date:
➡️ HPSF Conference
📅 March 16-20, 2026
📍 Chicago, IL
The 2nd annual HPSFCon will again bring together the brightest minds in high performance software. Stay tuned for CFP & registration details later this month.
October 1, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Great news! The date & location is locked in for #HPSFCon 2026. Save the date:
➡️ HPSF Conference
📅 March 16-20, 2026
📍 Chicago, IL
The 2nd annual HPSFCon will again bring together the brightest minds in high performance software. Stay tuned for CFP & registration details later this month.
October 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Missed our 4 day tutorial at ICPP? We've outlined the highlights in our latest blog ✏️ ✨

Read more about our work with Spack, Kokkos, and Trilinos: hpsf.io/blog/2025/hp...
September 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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The morning session also included an overview of @spackpm.bsky.social presented by #LLNL's Caetano Melone #HPC #CARLA2025
September 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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🏆 HPSF is nominated for best HPC collaboration in this year’s HPCwire Readers' Choice Awards.

🏆 Spack 1.0 is also nominated for best HPC programming tool.

Vote now: www.hpcwire.com/2025-hpcwire...

#HPSF #Spack #HPCwire #HPCCollaboration #HPCProgrammingTool
September 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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📢 Talk Announcement

"Reproducible software provisioning for high performance computing (HPC) and research software engineering (RSE) using Spack", by Martin Lang and Hans Fangohr.

📜 pretalx.com/pydata-paris-2025/talk/8C889E
📅 pydata.org/paris2025/schedule
🎟 pydata.org/paris2025/tickets
September 16, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Spack v1.0.2 is out! This release has a number of bug fixes and some improvements. #hpc #packaging

See the notes for details:
github.com/spack/spack/...
Release v1.0.2 (2025-09-11) · spack/spack
Bug Fixes spack config edit can now open malformed YAML files. (#51088) spack edit -b supports specifying the repository path or its namespace. (#51084) spack repo list escapes the color code for ...
github.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Nice little intro to Spack by Pawel Pomorski of Compute Canada

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFbN...
Installing your software packages with Spack
YouTube video by Sharcnet HPC
www.youtube.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Spack v1.0.1 is out!

github.com/spack/spack/...

This is a bug fix release -- check out the release notes for details! #hpc #spack
Release v1.0.1 (2025-08-11) · spack/spack
Bug Fixes Ensure forward compatibility of package hashing with the upcoming Python 3.14 release. (#51042) The spack diff command now shows differences in runtime dependencies (e.g., gcc-runtime, g...
github.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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We're looking forward to participating in the 2025 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) 🤓

We'll be having a hands on workshop showcasing an introduction to Performance Portable HPC Development with Spack, Kokkos, and Trilinos.

See you there ✨ hpsf.io/blog/2025/hp...
July 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Congratulations to the Spack team on reaching this significant milestone!
💥Spack v1.0 is out!💥

This is a huge milestone. We reworked the core to add compiler dependencies, and we're introducing a stable package API.

🚀1.0 also adds concurrent builds, better includes, and much more -- read it all in the release notes!

github.com/spack/spack/...
github.com
July 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Hard to believe!
July 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Cant wait to try this out. Huge achievement!
💥Spack v1.0 is out!💥

This is a huge milestone. We reworked the core to add compiler dependencies, and we're introducing a stable package API.

🚀1.0 also adds concurrent builds, better includes, and much more -- read it all in the release notes!

github.com/spack/spack/...
github.com
July 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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This is excellent news! Spack is an incredible tool within the HPC software management space, but I also use it on my own Linux machine to manage builds and environments. Like conda for compiled code.
💥Spack v1.0 is out!💥

This is a huge milestone. We reworked the core to add compiler dependencies, and we're introducing a stable package API.

🚀1.0 also adds concurrent builds, better includes, and much more -- read it all in the release notes!

github.com/spack/spack/...
github.com
July 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
💥Spack v1.0 is out!💥

This is a huge milestone. We reworked the core to add compiler dependencies, and we're introducing a stable package API.

🚀1.0 also adds concurrent builds, better includes, and much more -- read it all in the release notes!

github.com/spack/spack/...
github.com
July 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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@kermmartian.z80.me and I are hiring for a staff-level DevOps engineer! @spackpm.bsky.social expertise is particularly welcome.
Staff DevOps Engineer
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smrtr.io
June 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Awesome to see 48 people in the room for the first ever Spack User Meeting at the @hpsf.bsky.social conference!

Greg Becker is outlining the road to v1.0 in the opening session.

#hpc #hpsf @spackpm.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Don't forget to fill out the 2025 Spack community survey -- it's open until this Saturday, May 3.

Help us get to 200 responses -- we're only 15 away!
Hey Spack community! We're kicking off the 2025 Spack User Survey! Take 10-15 min to tell us how you feel:

📝https://forms.gle/G7xoddMwPF1k1BxT7

These surveys are invaluable for helping us set development priorities, so don't delay!

We'll keep this open until May 3.

#hpc
April 29, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Join us at the Spack User Meeting, May 7-8 at HPSFCon!

We've got 34 presenters lined up and can't wait to hear what they're all doing with Spack.
In May at #HPSFCon in Chicago, catch the Spack User Meeting to participate in sessions such as:
🌍 State of the Spack Community
🎉 Spack v1.0
⚡ Optimizing Spack: Multi-Package Parallel Builds for Faster Installation
🧩 Fast Binary Installation with Spack Splicing
See: hpsf2025.sched.com/overview/typ...
April 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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In May at #HPSFCon in Chicago, catch the Spack User Meeting to participate in sessions such as:
🌍 State of the Spack Community
🎉 Spack v1.0
⚡ Optimizing Spack: Multi-Package Parallel Builds for Faster Installation
🧩 Fast Binary Installation with Spack Splicing
See: hpsf2025.sched.com/overview/typ...
April 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Hey Spack community! We're kicking off the 2025 Spack User Survey! Take 10-15 min to tell us how you feel:

📝https://forms.gle/G7xoddMwPF1k1BxT7

These surveys are invaluable for helping us set development priorities, so don't delay!

We'll keep this open until May 3.

#hpc
April 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The schedule for the first annual Spack User Meeting (SUM25) is online!

We've got 34 talks from user and contributors around the world. Couldn't have asked for a better set of speakers.

See you all in Chicago May 7-8! Register before the early bird deadline on March 21!

spack.io/sum25-schedu...
The schedule is live for the first Spack User Meeting!
The schedule for SUM25, held at HPSFCon 2025, is online! We’ve got a great lineup with 34 contributed talks and updates on the Spack community and Spack v1.0.
spack.io
March 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM