How To Install ga-common on AlmaLinux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install ga-common in AlmaLinux 8. ga-common is Global Arrays Common Files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ga-common on AlmaLinux 8.

What is ga-common

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. - Global Arrays Common Files.

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

Install ga-common on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install ga-common

Install ga-common on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install ga-common

How To Uninstall ga-common on AlmaLinux 8

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

sudo dnf remove ga-common

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ga-common on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.