Get your HPC codes installed and running in minutes using Spack's Binary Cache

Brendan Bouffler
Date : August 8, 2022
Categories : AWS ParallelCluster ,Amazon NICE DCV ,Elastic Fabric Adapter ,Life Sciences
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Spack has already been removing the ugly work from building HPC codes, but with the announcement of the Spack Binary Cache at ISC'22, build and deploy times for these complicated applications will drop by 95% or more in most cases.

Greg Becker from Livermore came along to show us how it works, and discuss what’s behind it.

You can find a blog post about the announcement here: hpc.news/binaryCache

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