CITATION.cff

# If you are referencing Spack in a publication, please cite the SC'15 paper
# described here.
#
# Here's the raw citation:
#
#   Todd Gamblin, Matthew P. LeGendre, Michael R. Collette, Gregory L. Lee,
#   Adam Moody, Bronis R. de Supinski, and W. Scott Futral.
#   The Spack Package Manager: Bringing Order to HPC Software Chaos.
#   In Supercomputing 2015 (SC’15), Austin, Texas, November 15-20 2015. LLNL-CONF-669890.
#
# Or, in BibTeX:
#
# @inproceedings{Gamblin_The_Spack_Package_2015,
#     address = {Austin, Texas, USA},
#     author = {Gamblin, Todd and LeGendre, Matthew and
#               Collette, Michael R. and Lee, Gregory L. and
#               Moody, Adam and de Supinski, Bronis R. and Futral, Scott},
#     doi = {10.1145/2807591.2807623},
#     month = {November 15-20},
#     note = {LLNL-CONF-669890},
#     series = {Supercomputing 2015 (SC’15)},
#     title = {{The Spack Package Manager: Bringing Order to HPC Software Chaos}},
#     url = {https://github.com/spack/spack},
#     year = {2015}
# }
#
# And here's the CITATION.cff format:
#
cff-version: 1.2.0
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message: "If you are referencing Spack in a publication, please cite the paper below."
title: "The Spack Package Manager: Bringing Order to HPC Software Chaos"
abstract: >-
  Large HPC centers spend considerable time supporting software for thousands of users, but the
  complexity of HPC software is quickly outpacing the capabilities of existing software management
  tools. Scientific applications require specific versions of compilers, MPI, and other dependency
  libraries, so using a single, standard software stack is infeasible. However, managing many
  configurations is difficult because the configuration space is combinatorial in size. We
  introduce Spack, a tool used at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to manage this complexity.
  Spack provides a novel, re- cursive specification syntax to invoke parametric builds of packages
  and dependencies. It allows any number of builds to coexist on the same system, and it ensures
  that installed packages can find their dependencies, regardless of the environment. We show
  through real-world use cases that Spack supports diverse and demanding applications, bringing
  order to HPC software chaos.
preferred-citation:
  title: "The Spack Package Manager: Bringing Order to HPC Software Chaos"
  type: conference-paper
  url: "https://tgamblin.github.io/pubs/spack-sc15.pdf"
  authors:
    - family-names: "Gamblin"
      given-names: "Todd"
    - family-names: "LeGendre"
      given-names: "Matthew"
    - family-names: "Collette"
      given-names: "Michael R."
    - family-names: "Lee"
      given-names: "Gregory L."
    - family-names: "Moody"
      given-names: "Adam"
    - family-names: "de Supinski"
      given-names: "Bronis R."
    - family-names: "Futral"
      given-names: "Scott"
  conference:
    name: "Supercomputing 2015 (SC’15)"
    city: "Austin"
    region: "Texas"
    country: "US"
    date-start: 2015-11-15
    date-end: 2015-11-20
  month: 11
  year: 2015
  identifiers:
    - description: "The concept DOI of the work."
      type: doi
      value: 10.1145/2807591.2807623
    - description: "The DOE Document Release Number of the work"
      type: other
      value: "LLNL-CONF-669890"
authors:
  - family-names: "Gamblin"
    given-names: "Todd"
  - family-names: "LeGendre"
    given-names: "Matthew"
  - family-names: "Collette"
    given-names: "Michael R."
  - family-names: "Lee"
    given-names: "Gregory L."
  - family-names: "Moody"
    given-names: "Adam"
  - family-names: "de Supinski"
    given-names: "Bronis R."
  - family-names: "Futral"
    given-names: "Scott"