Information about the package, mpich2, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The mpich2 package is designed for, A high-performance implementation of MPI.
Package Name:
mpich2
Summary:
A high-performance implementation of MPI
Description:
MPICH2 is a high-performance and widely portable implementation of the MPI standard. This release has all MPI-2.1 functions and features required by the standard with the exeption of support for the "external32" portable I/O format. The mpich2 binaries in this RPM packages were configured to use the default process manager 'MPD' 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 '/usr/sbin/alternatives' and/or the 'module environment' to select which MPI implementation to use when multiple implementations are installed.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.2.1
Release:
2.3.el6
Size:
3.7 M
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT
Control the mpich2 package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install mpich2
This command will install mpich2 on the server.
yum remove mpich2
This command will un-install mpich2 on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mpich2, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove mpich2
This command will un-install mpich2 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 mpich2 when using the -y flag.
yum update mpich2
This command will update mpich2 to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mpich2, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update mpich2
This command will update mpich2 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 mpich2 when using the -y flag.
yum info mpich2
This command will show you core information about the mpich2 package.
yum deplist mpich2
This command will show you the dependencies for mpich2. 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 mpich2
This command will check if there is an update waiting on mpich2. 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.