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+# Copyright 2013-2021 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+import os
+
+
+class Nekrs(Package, CudaPackage, ROCmPackage):
+    """nekRS is an open-source Navier Stokes solver based on the spectral
+       element method targeting classical processors and hardware accelerators
+       like GPUs"""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/Nek5000/nekRS"
+    git      = "https://github.com/Nek5000/nekRS.git"
+
+    tags = ['cfd', 'flow', 'hpc', 'solver', 'navier-stokes',
+            'spectral-elements', 'fluid', 'ecp', 'ecp-apps']
+
+    maintainers = ['thilinarmtb', 'stgeke']
+
+    version('21.0', tag='v21.0')
+
+    variant('cuda',
+            default=False,
+            description='Activates support for CUDA')
+    variant('opencl',
+            default=False,
+            description='Activates support for OpenCL')
+    variant('hip',
+            default=False,
+            description='Activates support for HIP')
+
+    # Conflicts:
+    # nekrs includes following packages, but in order to build as part of
+    # CEED we can't leave them in as conflicts. They should be enabled
+    # sometime in future.
+    # for pkg in ['occa', 'hyper', 'nek5000', 'blas', 'lapack', 'gslib']:
+    #     conflicts('^' + pkg, msg=(pkg + " is built into nekRS"))
+
+    # Dependencies
+    depends_on('mpi')
+    depends_on('git')
+    depends_on('cmake')
+
+    depends_on('cuda', when='+cuda')
+    depends_on('hip', when='+rocm')
+
+    @run_before('install')
+    def fortran_check(self):
+        if not self.compiler.f77:
+            msg = 'Cannot build NekRS without a Fortran 77 compiler.'
+            raise RuntimeError(msg)
+
+    # Following 4 methods are stolen from OCCA since we are using OCCA
+    # shipped with nekRS.
+    def _setup_runtime_flags(self, s_env):
+        spec = self.spec
+        s_env.set('OCCA_CXX', self.compiler.cxx)
+
+        cxxflags = spec.compiler_flags['cxxflags']
+        if cxxflags:
+            # Run-time compiler flags:
+            s_env.set('OCCA_CXXFLAGS', ' '.join(cxxflags))
+
+        if '+cuda' in spec:
+            cuda_dir = spec['cuda'].prefix
+            # Run-time CUDA compiler:
+            s_env.set('OCCA_CUDA_COMPILER',
+                      join_path(cuda_dir, 'bin', 'nvcc'))
+
+    def setup_build_environment(self, env):
+        spec = self.spec
+        # The environment variable CXX is automatically set to the Spack
+        # compiler wrapper.
+
+        # The cxxflags, if specified, will be set by the Spack compiler wrapper
+        # while the environment variable CXXFLAGS will remain undefined.
+        # We define CXXFLAGS in the environment to tell OCCA to use the user
+        # specified flags instead of its defaults. This way the compiler will
+        # get the cxxflags twice - once from the Spack compiler wrapper and
+        # second time from OCCA - however, only the second one will be seen in
+        # the verbose output, so we keep both.
+        cxxflags = spec.compiler_flags['cxxflags']
+        if cxxflags:
+            env.set('CXXFLAGS', ' '.join(cxxflags))
+
+        # For the cuda, openmp, and opencl variants, set the environment
+        # variable OCCA_{CUDA,OPENMP,OPENCL}_ENABLED only if the variant is
+        # disabled. Otherwise, let OCCA autodetect what is available.
+
+        if '+cuda' in spec:
+            cuda_dir = spec['cuda'].prefix
+            cuda_libs_list = ['libcuda', 'libcudart', 'libOpenCL']
+            cuda_libs = find_libraries(cuda_libs_list,
+                                       cuda_dir,
+                                       shared=True,
+                                       recursive=True)
+            env.set('OCCA_INCLUDE_PATH', cuda_dir.include)
+            env.set('OCCA_LIBRARY_PATH', ':'.join(cuda_libs.directories))
+            env.set('OCCA_CUDA_ENABLED', '1')
+        else:
+            env.set('OCCA_CUDA_ENABLED', '0')
+
+        env.set('OCCA_OPENCL_ENABLED', '1' if '+opencl' in spec else '0')
+        env.set('OCCA_HIP_ENABLED', '1' if '+rocm' in spec else '0')
+
+        # Setup run-time environment for testing.
+        env.set('OCCA_VERBOSE', '1')
+        self._setup_runtime_flags(env)
+
+    def setup_run_environment(self, env):
+        # The 'env' is included in the Spack generated module files.
+        self._setup_runtime_flags(env)
+
+    def setup_dependent_build_environment(self, env, dependent_spec):
+        # Export OCCA_* variables for everyone using this package from within
+        # Spack.
+        self._setup_runtime_flags(env)
+
+    def install(self, spec, prefix):
+        script_dir = 'scripts'
+
+        with working_dir(script_dir):
+            # Make sure nekmpi wrapper uses srun when we know OpenMPI
+            # is not built with mpiexec
+            if '^openmpi~legacylaunchers' in spec:
+                filter_file(r'mpirun -np', 'srun -n', 'nrsmpi')
+                filter_file(r'mpirun -np', 'srun -n', 'nrspre')
+                filter_file(r'mpirun -np', 'srun -n', 'nrsbmpi')
+
+        makenrs = Executable(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "makenrs"))
+
+        makenrs.add_default_env("NEKRS_INSTALL_DIR", prefix)
+        makenrs.add_default_env("NEKRS_CC", spec['mpi'].mpicc)
+        makenrs.add_default_env("NEKRS_CXX", spec['mpi'].mpicxx)
+        makenrs.add_default_env("NEKRS_FC", spec['mpi'].mpifc)
+        makenrs.add_default_env("TRAVIS", "true")
+
+        makenrs(output=str, error=str, fail_on_error=True)