How To Install elpa-mpich on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-mpich on CentOS 7. elpa-mpich is Fast library for parallel solution of eigenvalue problems (MPICH

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-mpich on CentOS 7.

What is elpa-mpich

ELPA is a Fortran-based high-performance computational library for the (massively) parallel solution of symmetric or Hermitian, standard or generalized eigenvalue problems. This package contains ELPA built against MPICH.

We can use yum or dnf to install elpa-mpich on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install elpa-mpich.

Install elpa-mpich on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install elpa-mpich

Install elpa-mpich 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.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install elpa-mpich

How To Uninstall elpa-mpich on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove elpa-mpich

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install elpa-mpich on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.