Am 17.11.2011 um 10:37 schrieb Mark Dixon:

> On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, William Hay wrote:
> 
>> Looking at the various rsh impersonating qrsh wrappers provided with
>> SGE I notice that the difference between the mpi/rsh and the
>> mpi/openmpi/rsh wrapper is that the openmpi variant uses the -V option

The wrappers are no longer used in case you use a recent version of Open MPI 
(compiled --with-sge) or MPICH2. Both call directly `qrsh -inherit -V ...` if 
they discover that they are running under SGE and entries in 
start-/stop_proc_args can be set to NONE.

-- Reuti


>> to pass all environment variables through to the slave processes.
>> What if anything is the downside of the -V option when used with non
>> openmpi versions of MPI?   Recent openmpi builds can be built to call
>> qrsh directly anyway.
> ...
> 
> I suspect there's no real downside. Certainly, I see that some MPIs that 
> don't use the -V option (such as MVAPICH2 - which might mean the same for all 
> MPICH2-derived MPIs) explicitly set the variables it cares about in the 
> launch command, so there's little chance of existing variables causing it to 
> do something strange.
> 
> If you try it out, I'd be interested to know with which MPIs, and how you got 
> on :)
> 
> Mark
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