How To Install ga-mpich on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ga-mpich in Fedora 36. ga-mpich is Global Arrays Toolkit for MPICH

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ga-mpich on Fedora 36.

What is `ga-mpich`

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. - Libraries against MPICH.

We can use yum or dnf to install ga-mpich on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ga-mpich.

Install ga-mpich on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install ga-mpich

Install ga-mpich on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install ga-mpich

How To Uninstall ga-mpich on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove ga-mpich

ga-mpich Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/06
/usr/lib/.build-id/06/0c2b9ca6a3c2f314a7bc5baae2ae07c8e5f33b
/usr/lib/.build-id/36
/usr/lib/.build-id/36/c13dd2f086334aa632c047b4eb64aee038cc7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/45
/usr/lib/.build-id/45/02f6d51333c230896ea9be670a80386a0e6d0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/d766f7748997fdbf4fae3bf7db5cb84726be39
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/b6e20fc77559b59d4ce03fb91a56175df1858e
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0/b62625c8a3978b076f0a0c52d402b705bb92f3
/usr/lib64/mpich/bin/adjust.x
/usr/lib64/mpich/bin/collisions.x
/usr/lib64/mpich/lib/libarmci.so.0
/usr/lib64/mpich/lib/libarmci.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/mpich/lib/libcomex.so.0
/usr/lib64/mpich/lib/libcomex.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/mpich/lib/libga++.so.0
/usr/lib64/mpich/lib/libga++.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/mpich/lib/libga.so.1
/usr/lib64/mpich/lib/libga.so.1.1.1
/usr/share/doc/ga-mpich
/usr/share/doc/ga-mpich/COPYRIGHT

References

ga-mpich website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ga-mpich on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).