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+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, 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/llnl/spack
+# Please also see the LICENSE file 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 Stress(AutotoolsPackage):
+    """stress is a deliberately simple workload generator for POSIX systems.
+    It imposes a configurable amount of CPU, memory, I/O, and disk stress on
+    the system. It is written in C, and is free software licensed under the
+    GPLv2."""
+
+    homepage = "https://people.seas.harvard.edu/~apw/stress/"
+    url      = "https://people.seas.harvard.edu/~apw/stress/stress-1.0.4.tar.gz"
+
+    version('1.0.4', '890a4236dd1656792f3ef9a190cf99ef')