How To Install ucx on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ucx on AlmaLinux 8.
What is ucx
UCX stands for Unified Communication X. UCX provides an optimized communication layer for Message Passing (MPI), PGAS/OpenSHMEM libraries and RPC/data-centric applications. UCX utilizes high-speed networks, such as RDMA (InfiniBand, RoCE, etc), Cray Gemini or Aries, for inter-node communication. If no such network is available, TCP is used instead. UCX supports efficient transfer of data in either main memory (RAM) or GPU memory (through CUDA and ROCm libraries). In addition, UCX provides efficient intra-node communication, by leveraging the following shared memory mechanisms This package was built from ’’ branch, commit 6b29558.
We can use yum or dnf to install ucx on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ucx.
Install ucx on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install ucx using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ucx
Install ucx on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install ucx using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ucx
How To Uninstall ucx on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the ucx package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ucx
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ucx on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
