Dear sirs:

I find that in the windows environment some of the users of our software that uses MPICH2 may have more than one version of MPICH2 installed on their system. Therefore I am not aware of where the smpd.exe that is presently loaded comes from. If my software launches the incorrect mpiexec, then a version mismatch notice is given. Is there a way to enquire which version of smpd.exe is loaded at any time? smpd -version only gives the version that is closest in the PATH environment variable, and is not necessarily the one that is loaded.

Robert J. Bauer, Ph.D.

Vice President, Pharmacometrics, R&D

ICON Development Solutions

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Hanover, MD 21076

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Mob: (925) 286-0769

Email: Robert.Bauer@iconplc.com

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