Applications/Hwloc

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Application Details

  • Description: hwloc primarily aims at helping applications with gathering information about increasingly complex parallel computing platforms so as to exploit them accordingly and efficiently.
  • Version: 1.9.1
  • Module: hwloc/1.9.1
  • Licence: Software in the Public Interest

Usage

The Portable Hardware Locality (hwloc) software package provides a portable abstraction (on Viper) of the hierarchical topology of modern architectures, including NUMA memory nodes, sockets, shared caches, cores and simultaneous multithreading. It also gathers various system attributes such as cache and memory information as well as the locality of I/O devices such as network interfaces, InfiniBand HCAs or GPUs.

Module

[username@login01 ~]$ module add hwloc/1.9.1

Description

hwloc provides command line tools and a C API to obtain the hierarchical map of key computing elements, such as NUMA memory nodes, shared caches, processor packages, processor cores, processing units (logical processors or "threads") and even I/O devices. hwloc also gathers various attributes such as cache and memory information and is portable across a variety of different operating systems and platforms. Additionally, it may assemble the topologies of multiple machines into a single one so as to let applications consult the topology of an entire fabric or cluster at once.

hwloc primarily aims at helping high-performance computing (HPC) applications but is also applicable to any project seeking to exploit code and/or data locality on modern computing platforms.

Source https://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/


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