How To Install kokkos on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kokkos on Rocky Linux 8.
What is kokkos
Kokkos Core implements a programming model in C++ for writing performance portable applications targeting all major HPC platforms. For that purpose it provides abstractions for both parallel execution of code and data management. Kokkos is designed to target complex node architectures with N-level memory hierarchies and multiple types of execution resources. It currently can use OpenMP, Pthreads and CUDA as backend programming models.
We can use yum or dnf to install kokkos on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kokkos.
Install kokkos 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 kokkos using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install kokkos
Install kokkos 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 kokkos using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install kokkos
How To Uninstall kokkos on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the kokkos package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove kokkos
kokkos Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/c54a50c4a19aacf2cc49073e33fbc64cb684cd
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/ab259af8d7620470a8eadec505ba150ace6aae
/usr/lib64/libkokkoscontainers.so.3.0.0
/usr/lib64/libkokkoscore.so.3.0.0
/usr/share/doc/kokkos
/usr/share/doc/kokkos/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/kokkos
/usr/share/licenses/kokkos/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kokkos on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.