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\mainpage Hardware Locality
Portable abstraction of parallel architectures for high-performance computing
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\section common_introduction Introduction
The Hardware Locality (hwloc) software project aims at easing the process
of discovering hardware resources in parallel architectures.
It offers command-line tools and a C API for consulting these
resources, their locality, attributes, and interconnection.
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.
hwloc is actually made of two subprojects distributed together:
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The original hwloc project for describing the internals of computing nodes.
It is described in details starting at section \ref hwloc_intro.
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The network-oriented companion called netloc (Network Locality),
described in details starting with section \ref netloc_intro.
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Netloc may be disabled, but the original hwloc cannot.
Both hwloc and netloc APIs are documented after these sections.
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\section common_installation Installation
hwloc (https://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/) is available under the
BSD license. It is hosted as a sub-project of the overall Open MPI
project (https://www.open-mpi.org/). Note that hwloc does not require
any functionality from Open MPI -- it is a wholly separate (and much
smaller!) project and code base. It just happens to be hosted as part
of the overall Open MPI project.
\subsection basic_installation Basic Installation
Installation is the fairly common GNU-based process:
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shell$ ./configure --prefix=...
shell$ make
shell$ make install
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hwloc- and netloc-specific configure options and requirements are
documented in sections \ref hwloc_installation and \ref netloc_installation
respectively.
Also note that if you install supplemental libraries in non-standard
locations, hwloc's configure script may not be able to find them
without some help. You may need to specify additional CPPFLAGS,
LDFLAGS, or PKG_CONFIG_PATH values on the configure command line.
For example, if libpciaccess was installed into /opt/pciaccess,
hwloc's configure script may not find it be default. Try adding
PKG_CONFIG_PATH to the ./configure command line, like this:
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./configure PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/pciaccess/lib/pkgconfig ...
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Running the "lstopo" tool is a good way to check as a graphical output
whether hwloc properly detected the architecture of your node.
Netloc command-line tools can be used to display the network topology
interconnecting your nodes.
\subsection gitclone_installation Installing from a Git clone
Additionally, the code can be directly cloned from Git:
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shell$ git clone https://github.com/open-mpi/hwloc.git
shell$ cd hwloc
shell$ ./autogen.sh
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Note that GNU Autoconf >=2.63, Automake >=1.11 and Libtool >=2.2.6 are
required when building from a Git clone.
Nightly development snapshots are available on the web site,
they can be configured and built without any need for Git
or GNU Autotools.
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\section bugs Questions and Bugs
Bugs should be reported in the tracker
(https://github.com/open-mpi/hwloc/issues).
Opening a new issue automatically displays lots of hints about
how to debug and report issues.
Questions may be sent to the users or developers mailing lists
(https://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/hwloc.php).
There is also a \#hwloc IRC channel on Freenode (irc.freenode.net).
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