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Spack is a package manager, similar to yumapt-get, or conda. It allows for multiple package versions/configurations. Unlike the other package managers listed, Spack is specifically designed to be used on HPC resources with varying architectures. 

The purpose of this documentation is to provide a practical guide to quickly enable you to take advantage of its use in your research.

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languagebash
# detect kernel version, then source spack file if it exists
_KERNEL_VERSION=$(uname -r | cut -d '.' -f1,2,3)
 
if [[ "${HOSTNAME}" != "pascal.med.cornell.edu" ]] || [[ "${HOSTNAME}" != "aphrodite.med.cornell.edu" ]] || [[ "${HOSTNAME}" != "aristotle.med.cornell.edu" ]]; then
         if if [[ "${_KERNEL_VERSION}" == *"2.6.3"* ]] ; then
            if 
        if [ -f /softlib/apps/EL6/spack/share/spack/setup-env.sh ] ; then
                    
            . /softlib/apps/EL6/spack/share/spack/setup-env.sh
            fi
    fi
 
    if 
        fi
    fi
    if [[ "${_KERNEL}" ==  *"3.10"* ]] ; then
            if [ -f _VERSION}" ==  *"3.10"* ]] ; then
        if [ -f /software/spack/centos7/share/spack/setup-env.sh ] ; then
            . /software/spack/centos7/share/spack/setup-env.sh
        elif [ -f /software/spack/centos7/share/spack/setup-env.sh ] ; then
                    .  then
            . /software/spack/centos7/share/spack/setup-env.sh
            fi
    fi
 
fi
        fi
    fi
fi
builtin unset _KERNEL_VERSION


Warning

As always, after editing your ~/.bashrc, execute the command source ~/.bashrc

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However, from the output of the command spack find clearly shows numerous packages that start with "py". To improve on Spack's native find command, add this to your ~/.bashrc:

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function spack_my_find () {
    spack find | sed -r "s/\x1B\[([0-9]{1,2}(;[0-9]{1,2})?)?[m|K]//g" | grep -E "${1}|-- linux" | sed 's/-- linux/\n-- linux/g'
}

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Warning

Note: Sometimes, you'll see multiple installations of the same package installed on the same OS, with the same compiler (e.g. relion@3.0_beta is listed 3 times in the above output). What this means is that this packages was installed for the same OS/compiler, but with different configuration options. This will be explained in the next section.

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TRUNCATED OUTPUT:

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==> 28316768 packages.
abinit                           muster                                 r-catools
abyss                            mvapich2                               r-cdcfluview
accfft                           mxml                                   r-cellranger
ack                              mxnet                                  r-cghflasso
activeharmony                    nag                                    r-checkmate
adept-utils                      nalu                                   r-checkpoint
adios                            nalu-wind                              r-chemometrics
adios2                           namd                                   r-chron
adlbx                            nano                                   r-circlize
adol-c                           nanoflann                              r-class
aegean                           nanopb                                 r-classint
albany                           nasm                                   r-cli

Currently, there are 2are 6,831 768 packages available! This number will also certainly increase after the writing of this documentation. 

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Warning

Before loading any Spack packages, it is helpful to know that Spack stores a list of loaded packages in the variable $LOADEDMODULES. Executing the command echo $LOADEDMODULES at this point will produce a blank line, as we haven't loaded Spack packages yet (try it out, just to prove this to yourself).

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spack load -r python@3.7.0^gcc@6.3.0
  • The -r instructs Spack to load all modules that python@3.7.0 depends on. This is typically done automatically, but not currently done for perl, python, or R (this is because Spack does not build these packages with RPATH support--this may change in the future).

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echo $LOADEDMODULES | sed "s/:/\n/g" | sort

Here, we can see that python@3.7.0 is indeed loaded, as are all packages that it depends on.

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