Re: Hardware Locality (hwloc) v1.0 released

From: Samuel Thibault
Date: Tue May 18 2010 - 16:02:43 EST


Andi Kleen, le Tue 18 May 2010 21:37:07 +0200, a écrit :
> Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > The Hardware Locality (hwloc) team is tremendously pleased to announce the release of version 1.0:
> >
> > http://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/
> > (mirrors will update shortly)
>
> From a quick look it doesn't seem to offer anything Linux+libnuma+sysfs
> doesn't already offer natively?

It does provide a uniform way to express it, as a tree. And it does so
the same way on all supported OSes.

As an aside, it provides a portable way to bind processes & threads,
which PLPA was already meant to do on Linux itself only according to
glibc versions...

Samuel
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