Don,
Thanks! I think that is what we needed. I've passed this on to the person doing 
the work and it appears to be working passing the variables, but we're still 
working to get Tau to generate the profile files that we're expecting.

Moe,
The variable that needs to be set is LD_PRELOAD. We don't want to profile srun 
which is why this needs to be set specifically and only for the application to 
be run.

Thanks for the quick responses,
Mike Robbert

On Jul 29, 2014, at 6:05 PM, Lipari, Don <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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