Information about the package, mvapich-psm, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The mvapich-psm package is designed for, MPI implementation over QLogic infinipath-psm interconnect.
Package Name:
mvapich-psm
Summary:
MPI implementation over QLogic infinipath-psm interconnect
Description:
Mvapich is a high performance and scalable MPI-1 implementation over Infiniband and RDMA-enabled interconnects. This implementation is based on MPICH and MVICH. MVAPICH is pronounced as `em-vah-pich''. This version of the library uses Qlogic's InfiniPath PSM library for transport.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.2.0
Release:
0.3563.rc1.6.el6
Size:
529 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the mvapich-psm package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install mvapich-psm
This command will install mvapich-psm on the server.
yum remove mvapich-psm
This command will un-install mvapich-psm on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mvapich-psm, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove mvapich-psm
This command will un-install mvapich-psm 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 mvapich-psm when using the -y flag.
yum update mvapich-psm
This command will update mvapich-psm to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mvapich-psm, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update mvapich-psm
This command will update mvapich-psm 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 mvapich-psm when using the -y flag.
yum info mvapich-psm
This command will show you core information about the mvapich-psm package.
yum deplist mvapich-psm
This command will show you the dependencies for mvapich-psm. 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 mvapich-psm
This command will check if there is an update waiting on mvapich-psm. 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.