How To Install ga-mpich on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install ga-mpich on Rocky Linux 8. ga-mpich is Global Arrays Toolkit for MPICH

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ga-mpich on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ga-mpich.

Install ga-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 ga-mpich using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ga-mpich

Install ga-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 ga-mpich using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ga-mpich

How To Uninstall ga-mpich on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove ga-mpich

ga-mpich Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a/1bbc38ca97fd96d1574aee29a34cab591c5e76
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c/adbe27c3bc2f2101b53744ddcdc43888dcfd53
/usr/lib/.build-id/53
/usr/lib/.build-id/53/3baec1a4ae71d3417779d0d2899672346c50e5
/usr/lib/.build-id/93
/usr/lib/.build-id/93/5e50842be09f6b0716aa96fa00875ded2f9910
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba/f77d7f391f89b6ca7b47d678e7076552b43c60
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6/5c32c1e88ae2d6041833c0a4303b75275c7d9c
/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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.