How To Install blis-threads64 on CentOS 8

blis-threads64 is BLAS-like Library Instantiation Software Framework - pthreads, 64-bit

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install blis-threads64 on CentOS 8.

What is blis-threads64

BLIS is a portable software framework for instantiating high-performance BLAS-like dense linear algebra libraries. The framework was designed to isolate essential kernels of computation that, when optimized, immediately enable optimized implementations of most of its commonly used and computationally intensive operations. While BLIS exports a new BLAS-like API, it also includes a BLAS compatibility layer which gives application developers access to BLIS implementations via traditional BLAS routine calls. This packaging contains automatically-dispatched architecture-optimized kernels for some targets, notably recent x86_64. This is the pthreads-parallelized version with a 64-bit integer interface.

We can use yum or dnf to install blis-threads64 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install blis-threads64.

Install blis-threads64 on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install blis-threads64 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install blis-threads64

Install blis-threads64 on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install blis-threads64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install blis-threads64

How To Uninstall blis-threads64 on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the blis-threads64 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove blis-threads64

blis-threads64 Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/77
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/e0b25ac0710d96abc742ea12baa3cf747a08dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/58ce83f55ec3cd21bd9853b839b00453cfc5cb
/usr/lib64/blisblasp64
/usr/lib64/blisblasp64/libblas64.so
/usr/lib64/blisblasp64/libblas64.so.3
/usr/lib64/libblisp64.so.2
/usr/lib64/libblisp64.so.2.1.0
/usr/share/doc/blis-threads64
/usr/share/doc/blis-threads64/CHANGELOG.gz
/usr/share/doc/blis-threads64/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/blis-threads64/README.Fedora
/usr/share/doc/blis-threads64/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/blis-threads64
/usr/share/licenses/blis-threads64/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install blis-threads64 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.