Wherein we chat with Todd Gamblin about Spack, the package manager for supercomputers. We talk the unique challenges that packaging for High-performance computing platforms bring to package management, whether you should mine bitcoins on super computers and what's planned for the future of spack.

Special Guest: Todd Gamblin.

Links:

• Spack
• Spack on GitHub
• Spack documentation
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• High-performance computering on Wikipedia
• EasyBuild
• Spack white paper
• How To Make Package Managers Cry
• PubGrub: Next-Generation Version Solving – Natalie Weizenbaum
• Todd Gamblin on GitHub
• Todd Gamblin on Twitter
• Todd Gamblin on The Changelog