Intel® MPI Library Developer Reference for Linux* OS

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mpiexec.hydra

Launches an MPI job using the Hydra process manager.
Syntax
mpiexec
.hydra
<g-options> <l-options> <executable>
or
mpiexec
.hydra
<g-options> <l-options> <executable1>
 :
<l-options> <executable2>
Arguments
<g-options>
Global options that apply to all MPI processes
<l-options>
Local options that apply to a single argument set
<executable>
./a.out
 or
path
/
 name
 of the executable file
Description
Use the
mpiexec
.hydra
 utility to run MPI applications using the Hydra process manager.
Use the first short command-line syntax to start all MPI processes of the
<executable>
 with the single set of arguments. For example, the following command executes
a.out
 over the specified processes and hosts: 
$ mpiexec.hydra -f <hostfile> -n <# of processes> ./a.out
where:
  • <# of processes>
     specifies the number of processes on which to run the
    a.out
     executable
  • <hostfile>
     specifies a list of hosts on which to run the
    a.out
     executable
Use the second long command-line syntax to set different argument sets for different MPI program runs. For example, the following command executes two different binaries with different argument sets: 
$ mpiexec.hydra -f <hostfile> -env <VAR1> <VAL1> -n 2 ./a.out : \
-env <VAR2> <VAL2> -n 2 ./b.out
You need to distinguish global options from local options. In a command-line syntax, place the local options after the global options.

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