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Use the module name fastqc to discover versions available and to load the application.

Multicore

According to the fastqc --help documentation:

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    -t --threads    Specifies the number of files which can be processed
                    simultaneously.  Each thread will be allocated 250MB of
                    memory so you shouldn't run more threads than your
                    available memory will cope with, and not more than
                    6 threads on a 32 bit machine

So, only request as many cores as files you are processing. Example:

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The fastqc command can be ran with multiple threads, see the fasqc --help for more details on the --threads option.