I was curious what startup method other sites are using with Intel MPI? According to the documentation srun with Slurm's PMI is the recommended way ( https://slurm.schedmd.com/mpi_guide.html#intel_srun ).
Intel has supposedly supported PMI-2 since their 2017 release and that is what SchedMD suggested we use in a recent bug report to them, but I found that it no longer works in Intel MPI 2019. I opened a bug report with Intel on what appears to be an undocumented regression and all I got after several back and forths was that PMI-2 is not supported in Intel MPI 2019. We are not a large site so I don't think that we're going to miss any features or performance gains from PMI-2, but I'm sure it'll become more important for us in the future and it probably important to some of the larger sites today so it got me wondering what are other sites doing and has anybody else noticed this regression? Thanks, Mike Robbert
