How To Install torque-drmaa on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install torque-drmaa on CentOS 7. torque-drmaa is Run time files for the drmaa interface

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install torque-drmaa on CentOS 7.

What is torque-drmaa

TORQUE (Tera-scale Open-source Resource and QUEue manager) is a resource manager providing control over batch jobs and distributed compute nodes. TORQUE is based on OpenPBS version 2.3.12 and incorporates scalability, fault tolerance, and feature extension patches provided by USC, NCSA, OSC, the U.S. Dept of Energy, Sandia, PNNL, U of Buffalo, TeraGrid, and many other leading edge HPC organizations. Run time files for working the DRMAA interface to torque. DRMAA is “Distributed Resource Management Application API”

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

Install torque-drmaa on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install torque-drmaa

Install torque-drmaa 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 torque-drmaa using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install torque-drmaa

How To Uninstall torque-drmaa on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the torque-drmaa package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove torque-drmaa

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Summary

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