How To Install combblas-mpich on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install combblas-mpich on Rocky Linux 8. combblas-mpich is The Combinatorial BLAS Library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install combblas-mpich on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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 Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove combblas-mpich

combblas-mpich Package Contents on Rocky Linux 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

combblas-mpich website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install combblas-mpich on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.