Spack with Todd Gamblin and Greg Becker

CppCast

• Episode: Spack with Todd Gamblin and Greg Becker
• Website: CppCast
• Feed URL: http://cppcast.libsyn.com/rss
• Duration: 00:59:14
• Published: 2021-05-28 04:16

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 populat open source package manager aimed at HPC.

News

• Poxy: a Doxygen frontend with extra fancy
• Mostly harmless: An account of pseudo-normal floating point numbers
• Removing an empty base class can break ABI

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
• Clingo: A grounder and solver for logic programs
• Build: Solving the Software Complexity Puzzle

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