Intel® MPI Library Developer Reference for Linux* OS

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Document Table of Contents x
Intel® MPI Library Developer Reference for Linux* OS
Intel® MPI Library Developer Reference for Linux* OS x
Introduction Command Reference Environment Variable Reference Miscellaneous Notices and Disclaimers
Introduction x
Introducing Intel® MPI Library What's New Notational Conventions Related Information
Command Reference x
Compiler Commands mpirun mpiexec.hydra cpuinfo impi_info mpitune mpitune_fast
Compiler Commands x
Compilation Command Options
mpiexec.hydra x
Global Hydra Options Local Hydra Options gtool Options
mpitune x
mpitune Configuration Options
Environment Variable Reference x
Compilation Environment Variables Hydra Environment Variables I_MPI_ADJUST Family Environment Variables Tuning Environment Variables Process Pinning GPU Support Environment Variables for Fabrics Control Environment Variables for Memory Policy Control Environment Variables for Asynchronous Progress Control Environment Variables for Multi-EP Other Environment Variables
Tuning Environment Variables x
Autotuning
Autotuning x
I_MPI_TUNING_AUTO Family Environment Variables
Process Pinning x
Environment Variables for Process Pinning Interoperability with OpenMP* API
GPU Support x
GPU Pinning GPU Buffers Support
Environment Variables for Fabrics Control x
Communication Fabrics Control Shared Memory Control OFI*-capable Network Fabrics Control
Miscellaneous x
Java* Bindings for MPI-2 Routines
Intel® MPI Library Developer Reference for Linux* OS

cpuinfo

Provides information on processors used in the system.

Syntax

cpuinfo [[-]<options>]

Arguments

<options> Sequence of one-letter options. Each option controls a specific part of the output data.
g

General information about single cluster node shows:

  • the processor product name
  • the number of packages/sockets on the node
  • core and threads numbers on the node and within each package
  • SMT mode enabling
i

Logical processors identification table identifies threads, cores, and packages of each logical processor accordingly.

  • Processor - logical processor number.
  • ThreadId - unique processor identifier within a core.
  • CoreId - unique core identifier within a package.
  • PackageId - unique package identifier within a node.
d

Node decomposition table shows the node contents. Each entry contains the information on packages, cores, and logical processors.

  • Package Id - physical package identifier.
  • Cores Id - list of core identifiers that belong to this package.
  • Processors Id - list of processors that belong to this package. This list order directly corresponds to the core list. A group of processors enclosed in brackets belongs to one core.
c

Cache sharing by logical processors shows information of sizes and processors groups, which share particular cache level.

  • Size - cache size in bytes.
  • Processors - a list of processor groups enclosed in the parentheses those share this cache or no sharing otherwise.
s

Microprocessor signature hexadecimal fields (Intel platform notation) show signature values:

  • extended family
  • extended model
  • family
  • model
  • type
  • stepping
f Microprocessor feature flags indicate what features the microprocessor supports. The Intel platform notation is used.
n

Table shows the following information about NUMA nodes:

  • NUMA Id - NUMA node identifier.
  • Processors - a list of processors in this node.

If the node has no processors, the node is not shown.

A Equivalent to gidcsf
gidc Default sequence
? Utility usage info

Description

The cpuinfo utility prints out the processor architecture information that can be used to define suitable process pinning settings. The output consists of a number of tables. Each table corresponds to one of the single options listed in the arguments table.

NOTE:

The architecture information is available on systems based on the Intel® 64 architecture.

The cpuinfo utility is available for both Intel microprocessors and non-Intel microprocessors, but it may provide only partial information about non-Intel microprocessors.

An example of the cpuinfo output: 

$ cpuinfo -gdcs
=====  Processor composition  =====
Processor name    : Intel(R) Xeon(R)  X5570
Packages(sockets) : 2
Cores             : 8
Processors(CPUs)  : 8
Cores per package : 4
Threads per core  : 1
=====  Processor identification  =====
Processor       Thread Id.      Core Id.        Package Id.
0               0               0               0
1               0               0               1
2               0               1               0
3               0               1               1
4               0               2               0
5               0               2               1
6               0               3               0
7               0               3               1
=====  Placement on packages  =====
Package Id.     Core Id.        Processors
0               0,1,2,3         0,2,4,6
1               0,1,2,3         1,3,5,7
=====  Cache sharing  =====
Cache   Size            Processors
L1      32  KB          no sharing
L2      256 KB          no sharing
L3      8   MB          (0,2,4,6)(1,3,5,7)
=====  Processor Signature  =====
 _________ ________ ______ ________ _______ __________
| xFamily | xModel | Type | Family | Model | Stepping |
|_________|________|______|________|_______|__________|
| 00      | 1      | 0    | 6      | a     | 5        |
|_________|________|______|________|_______|__________|
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