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title: Spack
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summary: "Spack the HPC package manager documentation"
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For Merlin7 the *package manager for supercomputing* [Spack](https://spack.io/) is available. It is meant to compliment the existing PModules
solution, giving users the opertunity to manage their own software environments.

Documentation for how to use Spack on Merlin7 is provided [here](https://gitea.psi.ch/HPCE/spack-psi/src/branch/main/README.md).

## The Spack PSI packages

An initial collection of packages (and Spack reciepes) are located at **[Spack PSI](https://gitea.psi.ch/HPCE/spack-psi)**, users can directly use these
through calls like `spack add ...`.