Information about the package, mpich, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The mpich package is designed for, A high-performance implementation of MPI.
Package Name:
mpich
Summary:
A high-performance implementation of MPI
URL:
Description:
MPICH is a high-performance and widely portable implementation of the MPI standard (MPI-1, MPI-2 and MPI-3). This release has all MPI-2.2 functions and features required by the standard with the exeption of support for the "external32" portable I/O format and user-defined data representations for I/O. The mpich binaries in this RPM packages were configured to use the default process manager (Hydra) using the default device (ch3). The ch3 device was configured with support for the nemesis channel that allows for shared-memory and TCP/IP sockets based communication. This build also include support for using the 'module environment' to select which MPI implementation to use when multiple implementations are installed. If you want MPICH2 support to be automatically loaded, you need to install the mpich-autoload package.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.1
Release:
5.el6
Size:
1.5 M
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT
Control the mpich package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install mpich
This command will install mpich on the server.
yum remove mpich
This command will un-install mpich on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mpich, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove mpich
This command will un-install mpich on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove mpich when using the -y flag.
yum update mpich
This command will update mpich to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mpich, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update mpich
This command will update mpich to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove mpich when using the -y flag.
yum info mpich
This command will show you core information about the mpich package.
yum deplist mpich
This command will show you the dependencies for mpich. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update mpich
This command will check if there is an update waiting on mpich. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.