How To Install torque-mom on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install torque-mom on CentOS 7. torque-mom is Node execution daemon for TORQUE

Introduction

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

What is torque-mom

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. This package holds the execute daemon required on every node.

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

Install torque-mom 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-mom using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install torque-mom

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

sudo dnf -y install torque-mom

How To Uninstall torque-mom on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove torque-mom

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Summary

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