How To Install combblas-mpich on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install combblas-mpich on CentOS 8.
What is combblas-mpich
The Combinatorial BLAS (CombBLAS) is an extensible distributed-memory parallel graph library offering a small but powerful set of linear algebra primitives specifically targeting graph analytics. This is the MPICH version.
We can use yum or dnf to install combblas-mpich on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install combblas-mpich.
Install combblas-mpich 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 combblas-mpich using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install combblas-mpich
Install combblas-mpich 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 combblas-mpich using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install combblas-mpich
How To Uninstall combblas-mpich on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the combblas-mpich package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove combblas-mpich
combblas-mpich Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/13
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/32bda682923d574f9c496b351e4659545fa5d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/df1700a1e14021b0fe8030c5849f1bc3c7a17d
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9/0948d1a5e7849ebab59333472397eb4cb84552
/usr/lib64/mpich/lib/libCombBLAS.so.1.16.0
/usr/lib64/mpich/lib/libGraphGenlib.so.1.2
/usr/lib64/mpich/lib/libUsortlib.so.CombBLAS_
/usr/share/doc/combblas-mpich
/usr/share/doc/combblas-mpich/Graph500.html
/usr/share/doc/combblas-mpich/Graph500.org
/usr/share/doc/combblas-mpich/README_DEVELOPERS
/usr/share/licenses/combblas-mpich
/usr/share/licenses/combblas-mpich/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/combblas-mpich/graph500-1.2-COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/combblas-mpich/graph500-1.2-generator-LICENSE_1_0.txt
/usr/share/licenses/combblas-mpich/usort-LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install combblas-mpich on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.