Description:

systemquery 0.3.1

Comprehensive and concise system information querying tool.





The goal is to gather all relevant:

hardware information (processors, accelerators, memory, networks, drives)
static operating system information (name, version, hostname)
runtime information (environment, libraries, system load, etc.)

and provide them in a concise form that’s both machine- and human-readable.
Another important goal is to also be fail-safe, even with unexpected hardware configurations,
low-level tool errors and deal with incomplete information.
You can use system-query as a library and as a command-line tool.

Contents

Motiviation

Where am I running?
How to rerun this experiment?


Using

As library

system_query.query_all()
system_query.query_cpu()
system_query.query_gpu()
system_query.query_hdd()
system_query.query_ram()
system_query.query_software()
system_query.query_swap()


As command-line tool


Requirements
Contributors



Motiviation

Where am I running?
One of the main motivations for creating system-query is to assist with answering the question
“what is the actual hardware and software configuration of the system I’m using?”
regardless of the official specification.


How to rerun this experiment?
The system-query was also created to assist with the computational experiment reproducibility
and verification of results. Only if you know exactly where you ran your experiment,
you can reason about its results and be able to reproduce them.



Using
Installing system-query doesn’t enable all the features by default. Some of the query functions
will work only on some systems. To attempt installation with all features enables,
run pip3 install system-query[all]. If something brakes, you can narrow down the features
by typing a feature scope instead of all.
You can choose from cpu, gpu, hdd, ram and swap.
E.g. pip3 install system-query[gpu]. You can also select more than one feature
at the same time, e.g. pip3 install system-query[cpu,hdd,ram].

As library
In [1]: from system_query import query_cpu
query_cpu()

Out[1]: {'brand': 'Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz',
'clock': 1771.0370000000003,
'clock_max': 3900.0,
'clock_min': 1600.0,
'logical_cores': 8,
'physical_cores': 4}
More examples in examples.ipynb.

system_query.query_all()
This will launch all below functions and assemble results into a dictionary.


system_query.query_cpu()
To be able to see details like cache size, clock speed and core counts,
install Python packages pint and psutil.


system_query.query_gpu()
To be able to see GPUs in the system, make sure you have CUDA installed
and install Python package pycuda.


system_query.query_hdd()
To be able to see HDDs in the system, make sure you have libudev installed
and install Python package pyudev.


system_query.query_ram()
To be able to see amount of memory, install Python package psutil.


system_query.query_software()
This will attempt to gather version information of various common programs,
assuming their executables are in system path.


system_query.query_swap()
To be able to see amount of swap space, install Python package psutil.



As command-line tool
For example:
$ python3 -m system_query
{'cpu': {'brand': 'Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz',
'clock': 1725.031125,
'clock_max': 3900.0,
'clock_min': 1600.0,
'logical_cores': 8,
'physical_cores': 4},
'gpus': [],
'host': 'TestMachine',
'os': 'Linux-4.4.0-109-generic-x86_64-with-debian-stretch-sid',
'ram': {'total': 33701269504},
'swap': 0}
Usage information:
$ python3 -m system_query -h
usage: system_query [-h] [-s {all,cpu,gpu,ram}] [-f {raw,json}] [-t TARGET]
[--version]

Comprehensive and concise system information tool. Query a given hardware
and/or softawre scope of your system and get results in human- and machine-
readable formats.

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-s {all,cpu,gpu,ram}, --scope {all,cpu,gpu,ram}
Scope of the query (default: all)
-f {raw,json}, --format {raw,json}
Format of the results of the query. (default: raw)
-t TARGET, --target TARGET
File path where to write the results of the query.
Special values: "stdout" and "stderr" to write to
stdout and stderr, respectively. (default: stdout)
--version show program's version number and exit



Requirements
Python version 3.8 or later.
Python libraries as specified in requirements.txt.
Recommended (but optional) packages are listed in requirements_optional.txt.
Building and running tests additionally requires packages listed in requirements_test.txt.
Tested on Linux, OS X and Windows.
Additionally, for all features to work you should have the following libraries
installed in your system:

CUDA
libudev



Contributors
Aleksandr Drozd
Emil Vatai
Mateusz Bysiek
For licensing information, please see LICENSE and NOTICE.

License

For personal and professional use. You cannot resell or redistribute these repositories in their original state.

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