How To Install dmtcp on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dmtcp
on CentOS 7.
What is dmtcp
DMTCP (Distributed MultiThreaded Checkpointing) is a tool to transparently checkpointing the state of an arbitrary group of applications including multi-threaded and distributed computations. It operates directly on the user binary executable, with no Linux kernel modules or other kernel mods. Among the applications supported by DMTCP are Open MPI, MVAPICH2, MATLAB, R, Python, Perl, and many programming languages and shell scripting languages. It supports both TCP sockets and InfiniBand connections. With the use of TightVNC, it can also checkpoint and restart X-Window applications. The OpenGL library for 3D graphics is supported through a special plugin. This package contains DMTCP binaries.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install dmtcp
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dmtcp.
Install dmtcp on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install dmtcp
using yum
by running the following command:
Install dmtcp on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install dmtcp
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall dmtcp on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the dmtcp
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dmtcp
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.