C2SM Spack

Spack is the package manager used by C2SM and MeteoSwiss to install and deploy our software on supercomputers, mostly at the Swiss Super Computing Center (CSCS).

Contents:

• Quick Start
  • At CSCS/ETHZ (Balfrin and Euler)
  • Local machines and Containers
  • Use packages
  • ICON
  • COSMO
• C2SM Guidelines for Spack
  • Building
  • Running
  • Spack in scripts
• How to manage your own Spack instance
  • Versions
  • Create a new Spack instance
  • Setup Spack environment
  • Update Spack instance
  • Clean Spack instance
• Important Spack Commands
  • Spack find
  • Spack list
  • Spack info
  • Spack spec
  • Spack install
  • Spack installcosmo
  • Spack dev-build
  • Spack devbuildcosmo
  • Spack location
  • Spack build-env
  • Spack edit
  • Spack load
• Testing
  • Test packages (PR/MR/CI/CD)
  • Pull Request Testing for spack-c2sm on GitHub
• Upstream management
  • Install upstream
  • Uninstall upstream
  • Upgrade sysconfigs
• Develop packages
  • Plain dev-build
  • Dev-build in combination with build-env
  • Environments with Spack develop
• Target Users of spack-c2sm
  • Researchers from C2SM-community
  • BuildBot as part of the ICON-consortium CI
  • Sofware Engineers
  • Maintainers of spack-c2sm
• Why was Spack chosen by MeteoSwiss?