FWIW, environment variables prefixed with "OMPI_" will automatically
be distributed out to processes. From mpirun(1):
Exported Environment Variables
All environment variables that are named in the form OMPI_*
will auto-
matically be exported to new processes on the local and
remote nodes.
The -x option to mpirun can be used to export specific
environment
variables to the new processes. While the syntax of the -
x option
allows the definition of new variables, note that the parser
for this
option is currently not very sophisticated - it does not
even under-
stand quoted values. Users are advised to set variables in
the envi-
ronment and use -x to export them; not to define them.
Depending on your environment and launcher, your entire environment
may be copied out to all the processes, anyway (rsh does not, but
environments like SLURM do), making the OMPI_* and -x mechanisms
somewhat redundant.
Does this help?
On Nov 6, 2009, at 9:59 PM, Ralph Castain wrote:
Not at the moment - though I imagine we could create one. It is a tad
tricky in that we allow multiple -x options on the cmd line, but we
obviously can't do that with an envar.
The most likely solution would be to specify multiple "-x" equivalents
by separating them with a comma in the envar. It would take some
parsing to make it all work, but not impossible.
I can add it to the "to-do" list for a rainy day :-)
On Nov 6, 2009, at 7:59 AM, Paul Kapinos wrote:
> Dear OpenMPI developer,
>
> with the -x option of mpiexec there is a way to distribute
> environmnet variables:
>
> -x <env> Export the specified environment variables to the
> remote
> nodes before executing the program.
>
>
> Is there an environment variable ( OMPI_....) with the same meaning?
> The writing of environmnet variables on the command line is ugly and
> tedious...
>
> I've searched for this info on OpenMPI web pages for about an hour
> and didn't find the ansver :-/
>
>
> Thanking you in anticipation,
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>
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