diff --git a/Libraries/knem/build b/Libraries/knem/build
new file mode 100755
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/Libraries/knem/build
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+#!/usr/bin/env modbuild
+
+pbuild::set_download_url "https://gitlab.inria.fr/$P/$P/-/archive/$P-${V_PKG}/$P-$P-${V_PKG}.tar.gz"
+pbuild::add_to_group 'Libraries'
+
+pbuild::install_docfiles AUTHORS COPYING README
+
+pbuild::compile_in_sourcetree
+
+pbuild::post_prep() {
+  ./autogen.sh
+}
diff --git a/Libraries/knem/files/variants.merlin6 b/Libraries/knem/files/variants.merlin6
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bc5a310
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+++ b/Libraries/knem/files/variants.merlin6
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+knem/1.1.4           unstable     
diff --git a/Libraries/knem/modulefile b/Libraries/knem/modulefile
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+++ b/Libraries/knem/modulefile
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+#%Module1.0
+
+module-whatis		"High-Performance Intra-Node MPI Communication"
+module-url		"https://knem.gitlabpages.inria.fr/"
+module-license		"$PREFIX/COPYING"
+module-maintainer	"Marc Caubet <marc.caubet@psi.ch>"
+
+module-help		"
+KNEM is a Linux kernel module enabling high-performance intra-node MPI 
+communication for large messages. KNEM works on all Linux kernel since 
+2.6.15 and offers support for asynchronous and vectorial data transfers
+as well as offloading memory copies on to Intel I/OAT hardware. 
+"