PRTE(1)

💖 PRTE 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're talking about prte — and she's kind of a big deal. this page lives in the PMIx Reference Run Time Environment section of the manual (yes, that's the manual name, and yes it's a mouthful, we love her anyway 🫶), and it's here to tell you how to spin up a whole entire DVM. let's get into it ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

prte — instantiate an instance of PRRTE DVM

like. that's the whole job. she instantiates. she's an instantiator. iconic behavior honestly 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

shell$ prte ...options...

that's it, that's the vibe. you call her, you hand her some options, she does her thing. simple, clean, main character energy 👑

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so what is prte actually doing?? she instantiates an instance of the PMIx Reference Run Time Environment (PRRTE) distributed virtual machine (DVM). that's the whole tea. she's the launch button for a whole DVM, no cap 🔥

if you want the extensive help documentation, it's all there for you through:

prte --help [topic]

just pass a topic if you want to get specific, or don't, she's flexible 🦋

ngl bestie, here's the thing — at least for now, that help content is not available in man page form. so this page is kinda the short version 😭

and listen, if you're the type of person who wants to help out: pull requests to add all that content (via repeatable infrastructure, because we stay organized 💅) would be greatly appreciated. like genuinely. the maintainers would be so obsessed with you. do it for the culture 🎀

see also, because we keep the reciepts:

• prterun(1) <#man1-prterun> — go say hi to her too 👀

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🌸 COPYRIGHT 🌸

2003-2026, The PRRTE Community

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and that's the whole page, periodt 💜 this was PRTE(1), from the PMIx Reference Run Time Environment, dated Aug 16, 2026 — shoutout to The PRRTE Community for keeping the lights on since 2003, we love to see it 🫶✨ bye bestie!! 🦋