Intel® MPI Library Developer Guide for Windows* OS

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Intel® MPI Library Developer Guide for Windows* OS
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Introduction Installation and Prerequisites Compiling and Linking Running Applications Debugging Applications Analysis and Tuning Troubleshooting Notices and Disclaimers
Introduction x
Introducing Intel® MPI Library Conventions and Symbols Related Information
Installation and Prerequisites x
Installation Prerequisite Steps User Authorization
Compiling and Linking x
Compiling an MPI Program Compiling an MPI/OpenMP* Program Test MPI Programs See Also Configuring a Microsoft Visual Studio* Project
Running Applications x
Running Intel® MPI Library in Containers Selecting a Library Configuration Running an MPI Program Running an MPI/OpenMP* Program MPMD Launch Mode Fabrics Control Job Schedulers Support Controlling Process Placement Java* MPI Applications Support
Running Intel® MPI Library in Containers x
Build a Singularity* Container for an MPI Application Run the Application with a Container
Fabrics Control x
Selecting Fabrics Libfabric* Support OFI* Providers Support
Debugging Applications x
Debugging Using -gtool for Debugging
Analysis and Tuning x
Displaying MPI Debug Information Tracing Applications MPI Tuning
Troubleshooting x
Error Message: Bad Termination Error Message: No such file or Directory Error Message: Permission Denied Error Message: Fatal Error Error Message: Bad File Descriptor Error Message: Too Many Open Files Problem: MPI Application Hangs Problem: Password Required Problem: Cannot Execute Binary File Problem: MPI limitation for Docker*
Intel® MPI Library Developer Guide for Windows* OS

Compiling an MPI Program

This topic describes the basic steps required to compile and link an MPI program, using the Intel® MPI Library SDK.

To simplify linking with MPI library files, Intel MPI Library provides a set of compiler wrapper scripts with the mpi prefix for all supported compilers. To compile and link an MPI program, do the following:

  1. Make sure you have a compiler in your PATH environment variable. For example, to check if you have the Intel® C/C++ Compiler, enter the command: 

    > icl

    If the command is not found, add the full path to your compiler into the PATH. For Intel® compilers, you can run the script setvars.bat to set the required environment variables.

    NOTE:
    If you are using Intel MPI in a Unified Directory Layout, set the environment variables using the C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\<toolkit-version-number>\oneapi_setvars.bat script instead. To understand more about the Unified Directory Layout, including how the environment is initialized and the advantages of using the layout, see Use the setvars and oneapi-vars Scripts with Windows*.

  2. In the same command-line session, run the setvars.bat script in the installation directory to set the proper environment variables for the Intel MPI Library  (the default installation directory location is C:\Program Files(x86)\Intel\oneAPI\<version>

  3. Compile your MPI program using the appropriate compiler wrapper script. For example, to compile a C program with the Intel® C Compiler, use the mpiicc script as follows: 

    > mpiicc myprog.c -o myprog

You will get an executable file myprog.exe in the current directory, which you can start immediately. For instructions of how to launch MPI applications, see Running an MPI Program.

NOTE:
By default, the resulting executable file is linked with the multi-threaded optimized library. If you need to use another library configuration, see Selecting Library Configuration.

For details on the available compiler wrapper scripts, see the Developer Reference.

Compiling an MPI/OpenMP* Program

To compile a hybrid MPI/OpenMP* program using the Intel® compiler, use the /Qopenmp option. For example:

> mpiicc /Qopenmp test.c

This enables the underlying compiler to generate multi-threaded code based on the OpenMP* pragmas in the source. For details on running such programs, refer to Running an MPI/OpenMP* Program.

Test MPI Programs

The Intel® MPI Library comes with a set of source files for simple MPI programs that enable you to test your installation. Test program sources are available for all supported programming languages and are located in the test directory in your installation directory.

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