Likwid is a simple to install and use toolsuite of command line applications and a library for performance oriented programmers. It works for Intel, AMD, ARMv8 and POWER9 processors on the Linux operating system. There is additional support for Nvidia and AMD GPUs. There is support for ARMv7 and POWER8/9 but there is currently no test machine in our hands to test them properly.
It consists of:
For further information please take a look at the Wiki or contact us via Matrix chat LIKWID General.
Intel
AMD
ARM
POWER (experimental)
Nvidia GPUs
AMD GPUs
You can get the releases of LIKWID at: http://ftp.fau.de/pub/likwid/
For build and installation hints see INSTALL file or check the build instructions page in the wiki https://github.com/RRZE-HPC/likwid/wiki/Build
For quick install:
VERSION=stable
wget http://ftp.fau.de/pub/likwid/likwid-$VERSION.tar.gz
tar -xaf likwid-$VERSION.tar.gz
cd likwid-*
vi config.mk # configure build, e.g. change installation prefix and architecture flags
make
sudo make install # sudo required to install the access daemon with proper permissions
For ARM builds, the COMPILER
flag in config.mk
needs to changed to GCCARMv8
or ARMCLANG
(experimental).
For POWER builds, the COMPILER
flag in config.mk
needs to changed to GCCPOWER
or XLC
(experimental).
For Nvidia GPU support, set NVIDIA_INTERFACE
in config.mk
to true
and adjust build-time variables if needed
For AMD GPU support, set ROCM_INTERFACE
in config.mk
to true
and adjust build-time variables if needed
+--------------------------------+------------+ | Metric | HWThread 0 | +--------------------------------+------------+ | Runtime (RDTSC) [s] | 0.0022 | | Runtime unhalted [s] | 0.0001 | | Clock [MHz] | 1613.6392 | | CPI | 1.4019 | | L2D load bandwidth [MBytes/s] | 197.8326 | | L2D load data volume [GBytes] | 0.0004 | | L2D evict bandwidth [MBytes/s] | 54.5745 | | L2D evict data volume [GBytes] | 0.0001 | | L2 bandwidth [MBytes/s] | 528.0381 | | L2 data volume [GBytes] | 0.0011 | +--------------------------------+------------+
For a detailed documentation on the usage of the tools have a look at the html documentation build with doxygen. Call
make docs
or after installation, look at the man pages.
There is also a wiki at the github page: https://github.com/rrze-likwid/likwid/wiki
If you have problems or suggestions please let me know on the likwid mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/likwid-users
or if it is bug, add an issue at: https://github.com/rrze-likwid/likwid/issues
You can also chat with us through Matrix:
pip install pylikwid
] add LIKWID
We opened a survey at the user mailing list to get a feeling who uses LIKWID and how. Moreover we would be interested if you are missing a feature or what annoys you when using LIKWID. Link to the survey: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/likwid-users/F7TDho3k7ps
LIKWID development was funded by BMBF Germany under the FEPA project, grant 01IH13009. Since 2017 the development is further funded by BMBF Germany under the SeASiTe project, grant 01IH16012A. In 2022, the EE-HPC project is funded by BMBF Germany in the GreenHPC grant.