EAR 4.3
Reference Manual
RPM requirements

EAR uses some third party libraries. EAR RPM will not ask for them when installing but they must be available in LD_LIBRARY_PATH when running an application and you want to use EAR. Depending on the RPM, different version must be required for these libraries:

Library Minimum version References
MPI - -
MySQL* 15.1 MySQL or MariaDB
PostgreSQL* 9.2 PostgreSQL
Autoconf 2.69 Website
GSL 1.4 Website
  • Just one of them required.

These libraries are not required, but can be used to get additional functionality or metrics:

Library Minimum version References
SLURM 17.02.6 Website
PBS** 2021 PBSPro or OpenPBS
CUDA/NVML 7.5 CUDA
CUPTI** 7.5 CUDA
Likwid 5.2.1 Likwid
FreeIPMI 1.6.8 FreeIPMI
OneAPI/L0** 1.7.9 OneAPI
LibRedFish** 1.3.6 LibRedFish

** These will be available in next release.

Also, some drivers has to be present and loaded in the system when starting EAR:

Driver File Kernel version References
CPUFreq kernel/drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko 3.10 Information
Open IPMI kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/*.ko 3.10 Information