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Environment variables defined by intel mpirun?

Michael_C_13 — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 18:41:23 GMT

Hello Forum Gurus,

Where can I find a list of environment variables defined by Intel mpirun that contain the rank and process information, analogous to OMP_COMM_WORLD_SIZE, OMP_COMM_WORLD_RANK, etc. shown here: https://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=running#mpi-environmental-variables? Does Intel MPI even provide this functionality? I can't seem to find anything similar in the hydra documentation (https://software.intel.com/en-us/mpi-developer-reference-linux).

Thanks in advance for your help!

The environment variables you

James_T_Intel — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 19:56:57 GMT

The environment variables you want are PMI_RANK and PMI_SIZE.

Hi James,

Michael_C_13 — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 20:10:44 GMT

Hi James,

Thanks very much! Those are helpful but merely examples: for future reference, I was hoping you could point me to a complete list. For example, it may also be helpful for me to know each process' local rank, like OMPI_COMM_WORLD_LOCAL_RANK.

Searching the Hydra documentation for PMI_RANK does not reveal such a list, nor does the output of mpirun -help, nor does a cursory google for PMI_RANK or PMI_SIZE. I'm surprised this information is not more readily available...

Much appreciated,

Michael

We don't provide a documented

James_T_Intel — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 20:31:42 GMT

We don't provide a documented list of the environment variables set at runtime. If you want to see what is set for any given job, you can use I_MPI_HYDRA_DEBUG=1, but this will generate a lot of output. Alternatively, you can just run a script to show your environment at launch.

We do not have an equivalent for OMPI_COMM_WORLD_LOCAL_RANK.

Understood, thanks. "mpirun

Michael_C_13 — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 21:52:55 GMT

Understood, thanks. "mpirun -np 1 printenv" turned up PMI_RANK, PMI_FD, and PMI_SIZE. I think RANK and SIZE will be enough to get me off the ground.