OSHMEM_INFO(1)

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💖 NAME 💖

hiii bestie, welcome to the Open MPI manual — this is page OSHMEM_INFO(1), and it's all about...

oshmem_info — Display information about the OpenSHMEM installation ✨

like literally that's the whole job and she ate 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

oshmem_info [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so oshmem_info gives u the detailed information about ur OpenSHMEM installation. it's lowkey useful for at least three iconic scenarios:

  1. checking ur local configuration and seeing how OpenSHMEM was installed 👀
  2. submitting bug reports / help requests to the OpenSHMEM community (see Getting help <>) 🐛
  3. seeing a list of installed OpenSHMEM plugins and querying what MCA parameters they support ✨
🫶 Note: oshmem_info defaults to only showing a few MCA parameters by default (i.e., level 1 parameters). use the --level option to enable showing more options (see the LEVELS section for more information). no cap, there's a whole vibe system for this.

👑 OPTIONS 👑

oshmem_info accepts the following options:

  • -a, --all — show all configuration options and MCA parameters. everything. the full tea 🔥
  • --arch — show the architecture OpenSHMEM was compiled on 🏗️
  • -c, --config — show configuration options ⚙️
  • -gmca, --gmca <param> <value>* — pass global MCA parameters that are applicable to all contexts 🌍
  • -h, --help* — shows the help / usage message 🥺
  • --hostname — show the hostname that OpenSHMEM was configured and built on 🖥️
  • --internal — show internal MCA parameters (not meant to be modified by users — hands off bestie, fr fr 🙈)
  • --level — show only variables with at most this level (1-9). the default is 1, unless --all is specified without --level, in which case the default is 9. see the LEVELS section for more information 🪜
  • -mca, --mca <param> <value> — pass context-specific MCA parameters; they are considered global if --gmca is not used and only one context is specified 🎯
  • --param <type> <component> — show MCA parameters. the first parameter is the type of the component to display; the second parameter is the specific component to display (or the keyword all, meaning "display all components of this type") 🔍
  • --parsable — when used in conjunction with other parameters, the output is displayed in a machine-parsable format. --parseable is a synonym for --parsable 🤖
  • --path <type> — show paths that OpenSHMEM was configured with. accepts the following parameters: prefix, bindir, libdir, incdir, pkglibdir, sysconfdir 🗺️
  • --pretty — when used in conjunction with other parameters, the output is displayed in prettyprint format (default) 🎀
  • --selected-only — show only variables from selected components 👑
  • -V, --version* — show version of OpenSHMEM 🏷️

🌈 LEVELS 🌈

  1. basic information of interest to users 🫶
  2. detailed information of interest to users 🔎
  3. all remaining information of interest to users ✨
  4. basic information required for tuning 🎛️
  5. detailed information required for tuning 🎚️
  6. all remaining information required for tuning 💫
  7. basic information for OpenSHMEM implementors 🛠️
  8. detailed information for OpenSHMEM implementors 🧰
  9. all remaining information for OpenSHMEM implementors 🧠

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

shell$ oshmem_info

show the default output of options and listing of installed components in a human-readable / prettyprint format 💅

shell$ oshmem_info --parsable

show the default output of options and listing of installed components in a machine-parsable format 🤖

shell$ oshmem_info --param btl openib

show the MCA parameters of the "openib" BTL component in a human-readable / prettyprint format 🔍

shell$ oshmem_info --param btl openib --parsable

show the MCA parameters of the "openib" BTL component in a machine-parsable format ⚙️

shell$ oshmem_info --path bindir

show the "bindir" that OpenSHMEM was configured with 🗂️

shell$ oshmem_info --version ompi full --parsable

show the full version numbers of OpenSHMEM (including the ORTE and OPAL version numbers) in a machine-readable format 🏷️

shell$ oshmem_info --version btl major

show the major version number of all BTL components in a prettyprint format 🔢

shell$ oshmem_info --version btl:tcp minor

show the minor version number of the TCP BTL component in a prettyprint format 🧮

shell$ oshmem_info --all

show all information about the OpenSHMEM installation, including all components that can be found, the MCA parameters that they support, versions of OpenSHMEM and the components, etc. 💥

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and that's the whole page bestie, we're done!! 🫶💖 this one came from Open MPI, dated Sep 10, 2026, and it lives at OSHMEM_INFO(1) — slay, goodbye, periodt ✨🎀🦋

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