parmetis: Parallel Metis

Contents

  1. Overview of package
  2. Overview of package
    1. General usage
  3. Availability of package by cluster

Overview of package

General information about package
Package: parmetis
Description: Parallel Metis
For more information: http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/views/metis
Categories:
License: Free2Use (University of Minnesota)

General usage information

ParMetis is a MPI-based parallelized version of the Metis library which implements a variety of algorithms for partitioning unstructured graphs, finite element meshes and for computing fill-reducing orderings of sparse matrices.

This is the MPI/distributed-memory parallelized version of Metis, which can avail itself of multiple cores on multiple nodes.

See metis for the sequential verison.

See mt-metis for the multithreaded/shared-memory parallelized verison.

The following environmental variables have been defined:

  • \$PARMETIS_ROOT has been set to the root of the parmetis installation
  • \$PARMETIS_LIBDIR points to the directory containing the libraries
  • \$PARMETIS_INCDIR points to the directory containing the header files

You will probably wish to use these by adding the following flags to your compilation command (e.g. to CFLAGS in your Makefile):

  • -I\$PARMETIS_INCDIR
and the following flags to your link command (e.g. LDFLAGS in your Makefile):
  • -L\$PARMETIS_LIBDIR -Wl,-rpath,\$PARMETIS_LIBDIR${endlist}

    Available versions of the package parmetis, by cluster

    This section lists the available versions of the package parmetison the different clusters.

    Available versions of parmetis on the Deepthought2 cluster (RHEL8)

    Available versions of parmetis on the Deepthought2 cluster (RHEL8)
    Version Module tags CPU optimized for GPU ready?
    4.0.3 parmetis/4.0.3 ivybridge Y

    Available versions of parmetis on the Juggernaut cluster

    Available versions of parmetis on the Juggernaut cluster
    Version Module tags CPU optimized for GPU ready?
    4.0.3 parmetis/4.0.3 broadwell Y