How To Install ga-mpich-devel on CentOS 8

ga-mpich-devel is Global Arrays Toolkit for MPICH Development

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ga-mpich-devel on CentOS 8.

What is ga-mpich-devel

The Global Arrays (GA) toolkit provides an efficient and portable “shared-memory” programming interface for distributed-memory computers. Each process in a MIMD parallel program can asynchronously access logical blocks of physically distributed dense multi- dimensional arrays, without need for explicit cooperation by other processes. Unlike other shared-memory environments, the GA model exposes to the programmer the non-uniform memory access (NUMA) characteristics of the high performance computers and acknowledges that access to a remote portion of the shared data is slower than to the local portion. The locality information for the shared data is available, and a direct access to the local portions of shared data is provided. - Development Software against MPICH.

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

Install ga-mpich-devel 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 ga-mpich-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ga-mpich-devel

Install ga-mpich-devel 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 ga-mpich-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ga-mpich-devel

How To Uninstall ga-mpich-devel on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the ga-mpich-devel package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ga-mpich-devel

ga-mpich-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/GAServices.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/GlobalArray.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/PGroup.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/armci.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/chemio.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/comex.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/coms.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/dra.fh
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/dra.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/eaf.fh
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/eaf.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/elio.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/error.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/farg.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/ga++.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/ga-mpi.fh
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/ga-mpi.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/ga-papi.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/ga-wapi.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/ga.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/gacommon.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/global.fh
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/init_term.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/macdecls.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/macommon.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/maf2c.fh
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/mafdecls.fh
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/matypes.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/message.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/msgtypesc.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/msgtypesf.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/parmci.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/scope.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/services.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/sf.fh
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/sf.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/string-util.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/table.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/tcgmsg.fh
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/tcgmsg.h
/usr/include/mpich-x86_64/typesf2c.h
/usr/lib64/mpich/bin/armci-config
/usr/lib64/mpich/bin/comex-config
/usr/lib64/mpich/bin/ga-config
/usr/lib64/mpich/lib/libarmci.so
/usr/lib64/mpich/lib/libcomex.so
/usr/lib64/mpich/lib/libga++.so
/usr/lib64/mpich/lib/libga.so
/usr/share/doc/ga-mpich-devel
/usr/share/doc/ga-mpich-devel/COPYRIGHT

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ga-mpich-devel on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.