Topic: Software Build and Installation

Nicknamed SUM25, Spack’s first user meeting showcased new development and a thriving community.

The award-winning HPC package manager has seen steady growth and community engagement since its open-source release in 2014.

LLNL participates in the ISC High Performance Conference (ISC24) on June 10–13.

Todd Gamblin has a well-deserved reputation in the HPC software community as a passionate engineer who enjoys rolling up his sleeves and diving into technical problems. It’s not a stretch to see how he got hooked on HPC.

Two teams led by LLNL computer scientists won Editor’s Awards from HPCwire, a leading high performance computing industry publication, at the 2024 Supercomputing Conference in Atlanta.

LLNL is participating in the 36th annual Supercomputing Conference (SC24) in Atlanta on November 17–22, 2024.

Discover how the software architecture and storage systems that will drive El Capitan’s performance will help LLNL and the NNSA Tri-Labs push the boundaries of computational science.

LLNL participates in the ISC High Performance Conference (ISC24) on May 12–16.

Backed by Spack’s robust functionality, the Packaging Working Group manages the relationships between user software and system software.

Leading HPC publication HPCwire presented Spack developers with the Editor's Choice Award for Best HPC Programming Tool or Technology at SC23.

LLNL is participating in the 35th annual Supercomputing Conference (SC23), which will be held both virtually and in Denver on November 12–17, 2023.

Tammy Dahlgren has worked on a diverse variety of projects at the Lab, including supervisory control systems for the National Ignition Facility, animal disease modeling, mass hierarchical storage systems, RADIUSS, and more.

A Laboratory-developed software package management tool, enhanced by contributions from more than 1,000 users, supports the high performance computing community.

LLNL participates in the ISC High Performance Conference (ISC23) on May 21–25.

LLNL is participating in the 34th annual Supercomputing Conference (SC22), which will be held both virtually and in Dallas on November 13–18, 2022.

An LLNL Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Todd Gamblin leads the Spack project, an open-source package manager with a rapidly growing global community that has changed the way people use HPC software.

LLNL participates in the ISC High Performance Conference (ISC22) on May 29 through June 2.

LLNL participates in the digital ISC High Performance Conference (ISC21) on June 24 through July 2.

Computer scientist Vanessa Sochat isn’t afraid to meet new experiences head on. With a Stanford PhD and a jump-right-in attitude, she joined LLNL to work on the BUILD project, Spack package manager, and other open-source initiatives.

BUILD tackles the complexities of HPC software integration with dependency compatibility models, binary analysis tools, efficient logic solvers, and configuration optimization techniques.

Computer scientist Greg Becker contributes to HPC research and development projects for LLNL’s Livermore Computing division.

BLT software supports HPC software development with built-in CMake macros for external libraries, code health checks, and unit testing.

Highlights include recent LDRD projects, Livermore Tomography Tools, our work with the open-source software community, fault recovery, and CEED.