Installation

Kokkos is avaiable on a GitHub repository: github.com/kokkos/kokkos.

1. Via CMake

To build Kokkos with CMake, you can use the following commands:

NOTE:

cmake -DKokkos_<BACKEND>=ON

Where <BACKEND> is one of the following:

Backend	Description
SERIAL	Enables serial execution backend
OPENMP	Enables OpenMP backend
CUDA	Enables CUDA backend
HIP	Enables HIP backend
SYCL	Enables SYCL backend
THREADS	Enables POSIX threads backend

Backend

Description

SERIAL

Enables serial execution backend

OPENMP

Enables OpenMP backend

CUDA

Enables CUDA backend

HIP

Enables HIP backend

SYCL

Enables SYCL backend

THREADS

Enables POSIX threads backend

2. Via Spack

Spack is a package manager for supercomputers, Linux, and macOS. It makes installing scientific software easy. To install Kokkos with Spack, you can use the following commands:

spack install kokkos

Some variants are available for Kokkos, you can use the following command to see the full list of variants:

spack info kokkos

On gaya, there are environments already set with spack. You can load the environment with the following command:

spacktivate feelpp-openmpi4-kokkos