Information about the package, hwloc, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The hwloc package is designed for, Portable Hardware Locality - portable abstraction of hierarchical.
Package Name:
hwloc
Summary:
Portable Hardware Locality - portable abstraction of hierarchical
Description:
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, shared caches, processor sockets, processor cores and processing units (logical processors or "threads"). It also gathers various system attributes such as cache and memory information. It primarily aims at helping applications with gathering information about modern computing hardware so as to exploit it accordingly and efficiently. hwloc may display the topology in multiple convenient formats. It also offers a powerful programming interface (C API) to gather information about the hardware, bind processes, and much more.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.5
Release:
3.el6_5
Size:
1.4 M
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the hwloc package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install hwloc
This command will install hwloc on the server.
yum remove hwloc
This command will un-install hwloc on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove hwloc, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove hwloc
This command will un-install hwloc on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove hwloc when using the -y flag.
yum update hwloc
This command will update hwloc to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove hwloc, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update hwloc
This command will update hwloc to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove hwloc when using the -y flag.
yum info hwloc
This command will show you core information about the hwloc package.
yum deplist hwloc
This command will show you the dependencies for hwloc. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update hwloc
This command will check if there is an update waiting on hwloc. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.