Live from Day of 5 of #HPSFCon 2026 Charliecloud, Kokkos, and Spack host project meetings today featuring deep dives, technical sessions, and great discussions

On Wednesday we had our very first Env Modules Meeting at #HPSFcon. Many thanks to all the attendees for the very good discussions. A particular interest has been shown in variants, lua support and integration with @spackpm.bsky.social See presentations at hpsf2026.sched.com/overview/typ...

Kicking off #HPSFCon 2026 with a powerhouse panel on the roadmap for the next generation of supercomputing software. ✨ Featuring: Martin Schulz, Brian Van Essen, Christian Trott, Michael Heroux, and Michela Taufer , 🎤 and our host, Todd Gamblin!

See the full schedule for #HPSFCon --> lots of great sessions ahead events.linuxfoundation.org/hpsf-confere...

HPSF Conference in Chicago kicks off today with an update from the HPSF Governing Board by @tgamblin.bsky.social We'll be sharing updates live this week & we're looking forward to hearing your experiences. Use #HPSFCon for your posts about the conference.

#HPSFCon project meetings include AMReX, Apptainer, Chapel, Charliecloud, Environment Modules, Flux Framework, HPX, Kokkos, OpenCHAMI User Summit, Spack, & Trilinos User Group (TUG)

New blog post by Loris Ercole (CECAM): Using Spack on Top of EESSI: Best of Both Worlds www.eessi.io/docs/blog/20... #HPC #community

⏳ 3 days left. Standard registration for HPSFcon closes February 27. 📆 View the full schedule: hubs.la/Q044kTM20 🎫 Register now before rates increase: hubs.la/Q044kV8-0

HPSF Year in Review: Spack 📦 Spack delivered major usability and dependency management improvements with the 1.0 and 1.1 releases in 2025. In 2026 the focus is on refining workflows and improving support for shared Spack deployments. Check out the full recap here: hubs.la/Q03-_8nP0

HPSF Year in Review: Modules 🧰 Modules clarified project structure and released version 5.6 with a new hierarchy mechanism in 2025. In 2026 the project is growing its steering committee and delivering performance improvements with closer ties to Spack and EESSI. hubs.la/Q03-_dXF0

We had a great time at #FOSDEM at the HPC, Big Data & Data Science devroom & dinner! If you missed Xavier Delaruelle’s talk on HPSF, view it on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/-DdFXt5wLL0?... Photos provided by @boegel.bsky.social 📸

The recording of my "How to Make Package Managers Scream" talk at FOSDEM'26 is now available, enjoy! youtu.be/PBlDHlFnzGo

Repeat this five times fast! "Ask in the spack slack for help to install spark in a stack using a spec" Great talk always KH! #hpc #ai #cloud

Spack v1.1.1 is out! This is a patch release with some notable improvements: * Python 3.14 support * Better error messages for missing/deprecated versions * Major performance improvements for the solver Read it all in the release notes! #hpc #spack github.com/spack/spack/...

The best part about organizing the #HPC devroom at #FOSDEM is that I don't need to wade through half of the schedule, since I already know where I'll be spending my time. Really helpful, since FOSDEM'26 has over 1,000 talks in a single weekend! 😱 😎 🤩 fosdem.org/2026/schedule/ #FOSS #community

New blog post: Using Spack on top of EESSI: A Proof of Concept Can we convince Spack to reuse software installations available in EESSI to resolve required dependencies when installing QuantumESPRESSO? www.eessi.io/docs/blog/20... @spackpm.bsky.social

Schedule for #HPC, Big Data, and Data Science devroom at FOSDEM'26 (on Sun 1 Feb 2026, in Brussels) has been published: fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

This is an absolutely spectacular agenda. Congratulations to @boegel.bsky.social for once again putting together a great #FOSDEM devroom for those interested in #HPC, #BigData, and #DataScience and organizing the reviews.

It’s safe to assume that the HPC scheduling space is going to be in a state of Flux for quite some time to come… (I see what I did there. With consummate apologies to @vsoch.bsky.social and @tgamblin.bsky.social in advance 🤣)

the audacity of github to charge me to use my own self-hosted runners resources.github.com/actions/2026...

"With HPSF, the #HPC community now has what I consider to be the largest and healthiest forum for developing and nurturing open source software that it ever has," says @bradcray.bsky.social in Chapel blog: chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/1...

The CFP for HPSFCon 2026 is open 🤩 We're looking for sessions on: - Building and Sustaining Communities 🔨 - User and Contributor Experiences 🤝 - Project and Ecosystem Growth 📈 More details on our blog: hpsf.io/blog/2025/hp...

PSA, if you’re looking to do something like this, I highly recommend using @spackpm.bsky.social to manage your build environment. You can build NCEP’s GRIB2, BUFR, and “ip” libraries, along with other dependencies like Proj. Would be much harder without it.

Made my day when @jeffgeerling.com stopped by the Texas Tech #SC25 booth to take a look at our x86 mini-clusters that run Warewulf, Ansible, Spack, and complete scientific #HPC applications with the same software stack as on our main clusters.

We’re so excited to share that HPSF has been recognized as the Best HPC Collaboration in the 22nd edition of the HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards! 🏆 Thank you to everyone who voted for HPSF. We’re excited for what the future of HPC holds! hpsf.io/blog/2025/hp...

HPSF 🤝 SC25 Come say hi at booth 6134!

HPSFCon 2026 Call for Proposals are OPEN! 📄 🎤 Submit talks, discussions, lightning sessions, posters that are moving HPC forward 📅 Deadline: January 11, 2026 👉 Submit your proposal here: events.linuxfoundation.org/hpsf-confere... 💭 Learn more about what we are looking for: hpsf.io/blog/2025/hp...

So proud to be recognized as the Readers' Choice for Best HPC Collaboration in HPCwire! Thank you once again to everyone who voted, and everyone who visited us at SC this week! 💚 💙 ❤️

Spack v1.1.0 and spack-packages v2025.11.0 are out! 🥳Features: 🏗️ Compiler control (unmixing, %%) 📦 Improved externals ⬇️ Git fetching 😌 Configurable config 👩🏻‍🔬Experimental: 👩🏻‍💻 New parallel console UI 🏎️ Concretization caching More here! github.com/spack/spack/...

Me in the airport after not having slept, passing -mcmodel=large to the compiler for the fifth time hoping it fixes my GOT relocation issues

A Fedora fork called M’linux

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for ^G

The Best Paper Award at IWOMP 2025 was "Programming GPUs with OpenMP and Python”, awarded to Giorgis Georgakoudis, Todd Anderson, Stuart Archibald, Bronis de Supinski, and Tim Mattson. Congratulations! 🎉 #OpenMP #IWOMP #PYOMP #GPU

Join us in Chicago in March, when we'll hold the second in-person Spack User Meeting in conjunction with HPSFCon 2026! Stay tuned for details! #hpc #hpsf #spack

Great news! The date & location is locked in for #HPSFCon 2026. Save the date: ➡️ HPSF Conference 📅 March 16-20, 2026 📍 Chicago, IL The 2nd annual HPSFCon will again bring together the brightest minds in high performance software. Stay tuned for CFP & registration details later this month.

📢 Talk Announcement "Reproducible software provisioning for high performance computing (HPC) and research software engineering (RSE) using Spack", by Martin Lang and Hans Fangohr. 📜 pretalx.com/pydata-paris-2025/talk/8C889E 📅 pydata.org/paris2025/schedule 🎟 pydata.org/paris2025/tickets

Spack v1.0.2 is out! This release has a number of bug fixes and some improvements. #hpc #packaging See the notes for details: github.com/spack/spack/...

Nice little intro to Spack by Pawel Pomorski of Compute Canada www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFbN...

ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file

Don't miss our 4️⃣ day tutorial - Intro to Performance Portable #HPC Development with Spack, Kokkos, & Trilinos - at International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) in San Diego, CA from September 8-11 Early registration savings end on August 20th 👉 Register: icpp2025.sdsc.edu/registration

Spack v1.0.1 is out! github.com/spack/spack/... This is a bug fix release -- check out the release notes for details! #hpc #spack

We're looking forward to participating in the 2025 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) 🤓 We'll be having a hands on workshop showcasing an introduction to Performance Portable HPC Development with Spack, Kokkos, and Trilinos. See you there ✨ hpsf.io/blog/2025/hp...

Further update as of ~9:20pm Pacific Time on 7/29: There has been a *localized* upgrade to Tsunami Warning for segment of NorCal coast due to potential for <6 ft inundation near Crescent City. Rest of U.S./Canada West Coast remain under (lesser) Advisory. tsunami.gov/events/P...

Congratulations! That’s a huge milestone and so cool to see

Hard to believe!

💥Spack v1.0 is out!💥 This is a huge milestone. We reworked the core to add compiler dependencies, and we're introducing a stable package API. 🚀1.0 also adds concurrent builds, better includes, and much more -- read it all in the release notes! github.com/spack/spack/...

Please join us in welcoming R‑CCS as our newest General Member 🙌 R-CCS brings deep expertise in high performance computing and optimization for Arm systems, and is the team behind the Fugaku supercomputer. Read more: hpsf.io/blog/2025/hp...

We’ve got a request for information out on where we want to take Livermore Computing and other #HPC centers in the next five years. hpc.llnl.gov/fg-hpcc-rfi Check it out and send us your thoughts.