# hoard

## Summary

+ **Module Name:** hoard
+ **Support Level:** Secondary Support
+ **Software Access Level:** Open Access
+ **Home Page:** [https://github.com/emeryberger/Hoard](https://github.com/emeryberger/Hoard)

## Software Description

The Hoard memory allocator is a fast, scalable, and memory-efficient
memory allocator for Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Windows. Hoard is a
drop-in replacement for malloc that can dramatically improve application
performance, especially for multithreaded programs running on
multiprocessors and multicore CPUs.
## General Linux

To load this module for use in a Linux environment, you can run the command:

	module load hoard

Depending on where you are working, there may be more than one version of hoard available.
To see which modules are available for loading you can run:

	module avail hoard