Mike,

runjob is the task launcher on BG/Q.  Take a look at the --envs option 
documented in the runjob man page.

Then look at srun's man page for the --launcher-opts option.

I believe the answer may involve the use of the two.  It will be something like:

srun [...] --launcher-opts=='--envs MY_ENV=myenv' a.out

Don

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Robbert [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 2:34 PM
> To: slurm-dev
> Subject: [slurm-dev] Pass environmental variables to srun
>
> Is it possible to pass environmental variables to srun so that they'll be
> included in the environment of the executable, but not that of srun?
>
> What we're trying to do is profile uninstrumented applications with Tau on
> BG/Q. From what I gather this is normally done with tau_exec, but that is a
> bash shell script that won't run on the BG/Q compute node. There appears to
> be a -qsub option for that command that gathers up the needed environmental
> variables and passes them to the qsub command line using the --env option.
> So, I'm looking for a similar option in srun and can't find one. If there
> are other suggestions for how to do this that would be great as well. I've
> been told that we've tried setting the needed environmental variables in the
> script before srun, but then srun fails to run so it looks like these need
> to be set only for the application that we want to profile.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Robbert
> Colorado School of Mines

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