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+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2018, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
+# Produced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
+#
+# This file is part of Spack.
+# Created by Todd Gamblin, tgamblin@llnl.gov, All rights reserved.
+# LLNL-CODE-647188
+#
+# For details, see https://github.com/spack/spack
+# Please also see the NOTICE and LICENSE files for our notice and the LGPL.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation) version 2.1, February 1999.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the IMPLIED WARRANTY OF
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the terms and
+# conditions of the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+# License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+##############################################################################
+from spack import *
+
+
+class Talass(CMakePackage):
+    """TALASS: Topological Analysis of Large-Scale Simulations
+    This package compiles the talass tool chain thar implements
+    various topological algorithms to analyze large scale data.
+    The package is organized hierarchical FileFormat < Statistics
+    < StreamingTopology and any of the subsets can be build stand-
+    alone."""
+
+    homepage = "http://www.cedmav.org/research/project/16-talass.html"
+    git      = "git@bitbucket.org:cedmav/talass.git"
+
+    version('2018-09-21', commit='bf7da9bb54a026d8cb575b5be28b9c88095cb307')
+
+    # The default precision and index space sizes
+    variant('precision', default='32', values=('32', '64'),
+            description='Precision of the function values')
+    variant('global', default='32', values=('16', '32', '64'),
+            description='Number of bits used for the global index space')
+    variant('local', default='32', values=('16', '32', '64'),
+            description='Number of bits used for the local index space')
+
+    root_cmakelists_dir = 'StreamingTopology'
+
+    def cmake_args(self):
+        variants = self.spec.variants
+
+        args = []
+
+        if int(variants['local'].value) > int(variants['global'].value):
+            raise InstallError('The global index space (%d bits) must be at least as large\
+ as the local index space (% bits)' % (variants['global'].value,
+                                       variants['local'].value))
+
+        if variants['precision'].value == '32':
+            args.append('-DFUNCTION_TYPE=float')
+        elif variants['precision'].value == '64':
+            args.append('-DFUNCTION_TYPE=double')
+
+        # Set global index space
+        args.append('-DGLOBAL_INDEX_TYPE=uint{0}_t'.format(
+            variants['global'].value))
+
+        # Set local index space
+        args.append('-DLOCAL_INDEX_TYPE=uint{0}_t'.format(
+            variants['local'].value))
+
+        # Deal with the PROJECT_INSTALL_PREFIX to enable Talass super builds
+        args.append('-DPROJECT_INSTALL_PREFIX=%s' % self.prefix)
+
+        return args