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Tutorial: Spack 101

This is an introduction to Spack with lectures and live demos. It was last presented as a virtual event at the 2023 RADIUSS Tutorial Series, August 8-9, 2023. The event was a full-day tutorial spread over two days.

You can use these materials to teach a course on Spack at your own site, or you can just skip ahead and read the live demo scripts to see how Spack is used in practice.

Slides

Download Slides <_static/slides/spack-radiuss23-tutorial-slides.pdf>.

Full citation: Gregory Becker, Richarda Butler, Tamara Dahlgren, and Todd Gamblin. Managing HPC Software Complexity with Spack. RADIUSS Tutorial Series 2023. Virtual event. August 8-9, 2023.

Video

The recording of the virtual event is available in two parts:

• Part 1
  
• Part 2
  

Live Demos

We provide scripts that take you step-by-step through basic Spack tasks. They correspond to sections in the slides above.

To run through the scripts, we provide the spack/tutorial container image. You can invoke

$ docker pull ghcr.io/spack/tutorial:isc23
$ docker run -it ghcr.io/spack/tutorial:isc23

to start using the container. You should now be ready to run through our demo scripts:

1. basics-tutorial
2. environments-tutorial
3. configs-tutorial
4. packaging-tutorial
5. binary-cache-tutorial
6. stacks-tutorial
7. developer-workflows-tutorial
8. modules-tutorial
9. spack-scripting-tutorial

Other sections from past tutorials are also available, although they may not be kept up-to-date as frequently:

1. build-systems-tutorial
2. advanced-packaging-tutorial

Full contents:

Main Spack Documentation <https://spack.readthedocs.io>

tutorial_basics tutorial_environments tutorial_configuration tutorial_packaging tutorial_binary_cache tutorial_stacks tutorial_developer_workflows tutorial_spack_scripting tutorial_modules tutorial_buildsystems tutorial_advanced_packaging