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NAME

       laminfo - Display configuration information about LAM/MPI

SYNOPSIS

       laminfo [-arch] [-config] [-help|-h] [-param type module]
               [-parsable|-pretty] [-path item] [-version item scope]

OPTIONS

       -all          Show all configuration information

       -arch         Show architecture that LAM was configured for

       -config       Show some information about LAM configuration

       -help         Show help message

       -param        Show SSI parameter(s) for a given SSI type and module

       -parsable     Show output in an easily parsable format

       -path item    Print a given configuration path

       -pretty       Show output in a prettyprint format (default)

       -version      Print some or part of a version number of a given item

DESCRIPTION

       The  laminfo  command  is  used  to  display  information  about  a  LAM/MPI installation.
       Particularly with the SSI run-time module selection system, the  laminfo  command  can  be
       useful  to  scripts  and  resource managers to determine the capabilities of the installed
       LAM/MPI in order to pass run-time parameters to MPI programs.

       Output can be displayed in a "pretty" format (i.e., suitable for human reading)  and  also
       in  a  parsable  format  (i.e.,  suitable  for  easy parsing by scripts or other automated
       mechanisms).  There are no  other  LAM  API  functions  to  retrieve  this  data  (in  any
       language);  the  laminfo  command  is  the  best  mechanism  to  obtain  any configuration
       information about LAM/MPI.  The parsable output was designed such  that  common  utilities
       such as grep, awk, cut, and sed can easily be used to extract relevant information.

       Running laminfo with no arguments will display a subset of configuration parameters in the
       "pretty" format (see the EXAMPLES section,  below).   Several  command  line  options  are
       available  to  limit  exactly which information is displayed.  These options, when used in
       conjunction  with  the  parsable  output,  can  provide  automated   mechanisms   specific
       information about the capabilities of LAM/MPI.

   GENERAL PARAMETERS
       The  -pretty  and  -parsable  switches are used to select whether to display the output in
       "pretty" or machine-parsable format, respectively.  If neither is  specified,  -pretty  is
       the default.

       The  -arch  switch  will display the architecture that LAM/MPI was configured and compiled
       on.

       The -config switch  will  display  a  set  of  configuration  information  about  the  MPI
       capabilities  of  LAM/MPI,  such  as  whether  there  are C, C++, and Fortran MPI bindings
       available, whether there is MPI profiling support for C, C++, and Fortran,  whether  ROMIO
       support  is  available,  whether  IMPI  support is available, whether debugging support is
       available (mostly for LAM/MPI maintainers), and whether LAM/MPI is "purify clean" (meaning
       that it is suitable for use with memory checking debuggers).  Most of these are options to
       the LAM/MPI configure script, and are configure/compile-time  selections  that  cannot  be
       changed  once  LAM  has  been  installed.   While  there  is  no  fine-grained  control to
       individually request each of these pieces of information,  using  -config  in  conjunction
       with -parsable and commands such as grep can return any individual piece of information.

   PARAM PARAMETERS
       The  -param  switch can be used to show available SSI parameters and their default values.
       The type and module arguments can be used to specify a particular SSI type and/or  module,
       or   use   the   special  keyword  "all"  to  indicate  all  available  SSI  types/modules
       (respectively).

       Available SSI types are:

       all         Show all SSI types

       base        Intrinsic LAM/MPI parameters

       boot        Boot modules (e.g., lamboot)

       coll        MPI collectives

       cr          Checkpoint / restart

       RPI         MPI point-to-point.

       The names of the modules that are available are dependant upon which modules are available
       for any given type.  See EXAMPLES, below, for example usage.

   PATH PARAMETERS
       The  -path  switch  returns various paths that were compiled into LAM/MPI.  These were all
       decided when LAM was configured, and cannot be changed at run-time.  However, knowing  the
       location  of  these  directories  can be useful in order to find LAM data files, binaries,
       include files, etc. The -path switch takes a parameter: item.  Possible  values  for  item
       are:

       prefix      Display the prefix directory for LAM/MPI

       bindir      Display the directory where the LAM/MPI executables were installed

       libdir      Display the directory where the LAM/MPI libraries were installed

       incdir      Display the directory where the LAM/MPI include files were installed

       pkglibdir   Display the directory where the LAM/MPI dynamic libraries were installed

       sysconfdir  Display  the  directory  where  the  LAM/MPI help and configuration files were
                   installed

       Note that although LAM's GNU configure script defaults to certain values for all of  these
       directories  based  on the prefix (e.g., bindir is typically $prefix/bin), they can all be
       overriden by command line switches to configure, and should therefore  never  be  assumed.
       Use laminfo to determine what values were selected at configure time.

   VERSION PARAMETERS
       Since  each  SSI  module  in  LAM/MPI  is  an independant entity in itself, it may have an
       entirely different version number than LAM/MPI itself.  Indeed, each SSI module has  three
       version  numbers:  the  version  of  the base SSI API that it supports, the version of the
       component type API that it supports, and its own version number.   Most  users  will  only
       care about the last one (the module's own version number).

       The -path switch takes two parameters: item and scope.

       The  item  can  be  the  main  LAM version itself, any of the SSI types, or a specific SSI
       module.  There are currently four kinds of SSI modules that can be  queried:  boot,  coll,
       rpi,  and  cr.   Hence,  the version numbers that can be obtained from the -version switch
       are:

       lam         The version of LAM/MPI

       boot        The three versions of each boot SSI module

       boot:name   The three versions of a specific boot SSI module

       coll        The three versions of each coll SSI module

       coll:name   The three versions of a specific coll SSI module

       rpi         The three versions of each rpi SSI module

       rpi:name    The three versions of a specific rpi SSI module

       cr          The three versions of each cr SSI module

       cr:name     The three versions of a specific cr SSI module

       The scope argument describes what part of the version  number  to  display.   This  allows
       either  the  full  version number to be displayed, or any specific individual component of
       the version number.  Valid values for scope are:

       full        Display the full version number (i.e., all components).  A sequence  of  rules
                   are  used to run all the components together into a single string.  Generally:
                   major and minor are always displayed, but other components are only  displayed
                   if they are not zero.

       major       Display the major version number

       minor       Display the minor version number

       release     Display the release version number

       alpha       Display  the alpha version number.  In the full scope, if nonzero, this number
                   will be preceeded by "a".

       beta        Display the beta version number.  In the full scope, if nonzero,  this  number
                   will be preceeded by "b".

       cvs         Display  whether  LAM was installed from a CVS checkout.  In pretty mode, this
                   will be the string "cvs" if true, or blank if false.  In parsable  mode,  this
                   will be 1 if true, 0 if false.

EXAMPLES

       laminfo
           With  no  parameters,  laminfo displays a default set of information about the LAM/MPI
           installation.  This information includes:

       -   Version of LAM/MPI

       -   Installation prefix directory

       -   Architecture that LAM/MPI is installed for

       -   User who configured LAM/MPI

       -   Time/datestamp when LAM/MPI was configured

       -   Host that LAM/MPI was configured on

       -   Whether MPI bindings are provided for C, C++, Fortran

       -   Whether MPI profiling is available for C, C++, Fortran

       -   Whether ROMIO support is included

       -   Whether IMPI support is included

       -   Whether debug support  is  included  (mainly  for  LAM/MPI  maintainers;  specifically
           indicates whether --with-debug was used to configure LAM)

       -   Whether   LAM/MPI   is   "purify   clean"  (suitable  for  memory-checking  debuggers;
           specifically indicates whether --with-purify was used to configure LAM)

       -   List all boot, coll, and rpi SSI modules that are available, and  their  corresponding
           versions

       laminfo -parsable
           Display the same default set of information but in a machine-readable format.

       laminfo -all
           Display all information that is available to laminfo.

       laminfo -param all all
           Show all SSI parameters (and their corresponding default values) for all available SSI
           types and modules.

       laminfo -param rpi all
           Show all SSI parameters (and their corresponding  default  values)  for  all  rpi  SSI
           modules.

       laminfo -param rpi tcp
           Show  all  SSI parameters (and their corresponding default values) for the tcp rpi SSI
           module.

       laminfo -param rpi tcp -parsable
           Show all SSI parameters (and their corresponding default values) for the tcp  rpi  SSI
           module in a machine-readable format.

       laminfo -path bindir -path sysconfdir -parsable
           Display  the  directories  where  the LAM/MPI executables and help/configuration files
           were installed in a machine-readable format.

       laminfo -version lam full -parsable
           Display the full version of LAM/MPI in a machine-readable format.

       laminfo -version rpi:tcp full
           Show the full version of the TCP RPI SSI module.

SEE ALSO

       lamssi(7), mpirun(1), lamboot(1), lamwipe(1)