Todd Gamblin's guest appearances

Todd Gamblin

CppCast

The Manifest

Matt Fernandez

Scott Meyers

Ben Smith

Jackie Kay

Steve Klabnik

David Stone

Jeri Ellsworth

Sara Chipps

Travis CI

DAVID ADLER

Jason Turner

Matt Butler

Adam Baldwin

Sarah Smith

Stephen Kelly

OwlTail

Greg Becker

Rob and Jason are joined by Todd Gamblin and Greg Becker. They first discuss a documentation tool, a blog post about floating point numbers, and yet another post about ABI changes. Then they talk to Todd and Greg from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) who both work on Spack, the popular open source package manager aimed at HPC.        News  Poxy: a Doxygen frontend with extra fancy Mostly harmless: An account of pseudo-normal floating point numbers Removing an empty base class can break ABI  Links  Spack Spack on GitHub Spack Tutorial Spack Slack Build all the things with Spack: a package manager for more than C++ - Todd Gamblin - CppCon 2020 Clingo: A grounder and solver for logic programs Build: Solving the Software Complexity Puzzle  Sponsors  PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6 COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables

Rob and Jason are joined by Todd Gamblin and Greg Becker. They first discuss a documentation tool, a blog post about floating point numbers, and yet another post about ABI changes. Then they talk to Todd and Greg from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) who both work on Spack, the popular open source package manager aimed at HPC.<br>        <h3>News</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/marzer/poxy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Poxy: a Doxygen frontend with extra fancy</a></li> <li><a href="https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/05/12/mostly-harmless-an-account-of-pseudo-normal-floating-point-numbers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mostly harmless: An account of pseudo-normal floating point numbers</a></li> <li><a href="https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2021/05/07/std-iterator-as-a-base-class/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Removing an empty base class can break ABI</a></li> </ul> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://spack.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spack</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/spack/spack" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spack on GitHub</a></li> <li><a href="https://spack-tutorial.readthedocs.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spack Tutorial</a></li> <li><a href="https://slack.spack.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spack Slack</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuhV7iKRIJU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Build all the things with Spack: a package manager for more than C++ - Todd Gamblin - CppCon 2020</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/potassco/clingo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Clingo: A grounder and solver for logic programs</a></li> <li><a href="https://computing.llnl.gov/projects/build" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Build: Solving the Software Complexity Puzzle</a></li> </ul> <h3>Sponsors</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.viva64.com/pvs-download-cppcast-t" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PVS-Studio.</a> Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license</li> <li><a href="https://www.viva64.com/qt-6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.viva64.com/covid-19" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables</a></li></ul>

Spack

Wherein we chat with Todd Gamblin about Spack, the package manager for supercomputers. We talk the unique challenges that packaging for High-performance computing platforms bring to package management, whether you should mine bitcoins on super computers and what's planned for the future of spack.Special Guest: Todd Gamblin.Links:SpackSpack on GitHubSpack documentationLawrence Livermore National LaboratoryHigh-performance computering on WikipediaEasyBuildSpack white paperHow To Make Package Managers CryPubGrub: Next-Generation Version Solving – Natalie WeizenbaumTodd Gamblin on GitHubTodd Gamblin on TwitterTodd Gamblin on The Changelog

<p>Wherein we chat with Todd Gamblin about Spack, the package manager for supercomputers. We talk the unique challenges that packaging for High-performance computing platforms bring to package management, whether you should mine bitcoins on super computers and what's planned for the future of spack.</p><p>Special Guest: Todd Gamblin.</p><p>Links:</p><ul><li><a href="https://spack.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spack</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/spack/spack" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spack on GitHub</a></li><li><a href="https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spack documentation</a></li><li><a href="https://www.llnl.gov/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">High-performance computering on Wikipedia</a></li><li><a href="http://easybuilders.github.io/easybuild/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EasyBuild</a></li><li><a href="https://tgamblin.github.io/pubs/spack-sc15.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spack white paper</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSemlYagjIU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How To Make Package Managers Cry</a></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/@nex3/pubgrub-2fb6470504f" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PubGrub: Next-Generation Version Solving – Natalie Weizenbaum</a></li><li><a href="https://github.com/tgamblin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Todd Gamblin on GitHub</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/tgamblin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Todd Gamblin on Twitter</a></li><li><a href="https://changelog.com/podcast/284" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Todd Gamblin on The Changelog</a></li></ul>

Episode 11: Spack with Todd Gamblin