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hwloc

The Portable Hardware Locality (hwloc) software package provides a portable abstraction (across OS, versions, architectures, ...) 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. It primarily aims at helping applications with gathering information about modern computing hardware so as to exploit it accordingly and efficiently.

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

Available modules

The overview below shows which hwloc installations are available per target architecture in EESSI, ordered based on software version (new to old).

To start using hwloc, load one of these modules using a module load command like:

module load hwloc/2.9.2-GCCcore-13.2.0

(This data was automatically generated on Fri, 06 Feb 2026 at 13:12:13 UTC)

aarch64/generic aarch64/a64fx aarch64/neoverse_n1 aarch64/neoverse_v1 aarch64/nvidia/grace x86_64/generic x86_64/amd/zen2 x86_64/amd/zen3 x86_64/amd/zen4 x86_64/intel/cascadelake x86_64/intel/haswell x86_64/intel/icelake x86_64/intel/sapphirerapids x86_64/intel/skylake_avx512
hwloc/2.9.2-GCCcore-13.2.0 x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
hwloc/2.9.1-GCCcore-12.3.0 x x x x x x x x x x x x x x
hwloc/2.8.0-GCCcore-12.2.0 x x x x x x x x x x x x x x