How To Install starpu-top on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install starpu-top on Debian 9. starpu-top is Task scheduler for heterogeneous multicore machines - top

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install starpu-top on Debian 9.

What is starpu-top

starpu-top is:

StarPU is a runtime system that offers support for heterogeneous multicore machines. While many efforts are devoted to design efficient computation kernels for those architectures (e.g. to implement BLAS kernels on GPUs or on Cell’s SPUs), StarPU not only takes care of offloading such kernels (and implementing data coherency across the machine), but it also makes sure the kernels are executed as efficiently as possible.

This package contains a graphical top tool.

There are three methods to install starpu-top on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install starpu-top Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install starpu-top using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install starpu-top

Install starpu-top Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install starpu-top using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install starpu-top

Install starpu-top Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install starpu-top using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install starpu-top

How To Uninstall starpu-top on Debian 9

To uninstall only the starpu-top package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove starpu-top

Uninstall starpu-top And Its Dependencies

To uninstall starpu-top and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove starpu-top

Remove starpu-top Configurations and Data

To remove starpu-top configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge starpu-top

Remove starpu-top configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove starpu-top configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge starpu-top

Dependencies

starpu-top have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install starpu-top package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.