hwloc

hwloc provides a portable abstraction (across OS, versions, architectures, ...) of the hierarchical topology of modern architectures. It primarily aims at helping high-performance computing application with gathering information about the hardware so as to exploit it accordingly and efficiently.

hwloc provides a hierarchical view of the machine, NUMA memory nodes, sockets, shared caches, cores and simultaneous multithreading. It also gathers various attributes such as cache and memory information.

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aix cache hardware hardware_detection hp-ux linux macosx multicore numa osf socket solaris topology windows