[mpich-discuss] Question on the Centos/RH binaries for 1.2.1

[Deji Akingunola]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:03 PM,  <chan at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
> I don't have access to CentOS, so can't test it for you.
> For Fedora 12, I download the rpm files for
> mpich2 and mpich2-devel, and install them as
> "rpm -ivh mpich2*.rpm".  Here provided that
> gcc/gfortran are the compilers that you can use.

In  addition, you may need to download the environment-modules rpm [1]
to satisfy rpm's dependency checking.


Deji.

[1]. You can get it from http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/

> If you want to use other compilers like icc/ifort...,
> you need to download the source tarball and build mpich2 yourself.
> Using rpm directly instead of yum has drawbacks but it
> is the simplest way to install the rpm files.
>
> A.Chan
> ----- "Dave M Hiatt" <dave.m.hiatt at citi.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, problem is, the security gnomes won't let me have internet
>> access on my x64's.  So I'm stuck with sneaker net.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Subject: Re: [mpich-discuss] Question on the Centos/RH binaries for
>> 1.2.1
>>
>>
>>
>> For Redhat linux, the easiest way to install mpich2 is to
>> use "yum", i.e. do "yum install mpich2 mpich2-devel" as root.
>> For CentOS RH 5.3, you probably need "el5" which I think means
>> "Enterprise Linux 5".
>>
>> A.Chan
>>
>> ----- "Dave M Hiatt" <dave.m.hiatt at citi.com> wrote:
>>
>> > If I may, I have a question.  I am a neophyte in terms of Linux,
>> just
>> > setting up my first Linux node.  I have many Windows x64 XP nodes
>> > running.  But I am in great need to get a binary up and running on
>> the
>> > Centos equivalent of RH 5.3.
>> >
>> > I followed the URL's on the site but I don' t really understand the
>> > nomenclature for the releases.  I took the "el" to mean Enterprise
>> > editions, and the "fc" to mean the standard releases.  I have so
>> far
>> > one box built up for Linux on the Centos RH 5.3 equivalent.  I am
>> > running x64.  I picked the 1.2.1 release version, and followed
>> that,
>> > but do not have the Linux knowledge to decipher what the 1.; 2.; 3.
>> > meanings are and what fc1x implies.  I downloaded 1.fc13, 2.fc13,
>> and
>> > 3.fc13 thinking they are related and should be installed in that
>> > order.  Is that correct?  Could you educate me.  Sorry for my
>> > ignorance.
>> >
>> > Dave
>> >
>> >
>> > "Consequences, Schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich". - Daffy Duck
>> > Dave Hiatt
>> > Market Risk Systems Integration
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