How can my program detect, whether it was launch via mpirun

Question

How can my MPI program detect, if it was launched as a standalone application or via mpirun?

Answer 1

There is no MPI standard way to tell the difference between an MPI application that is launched directly, or as a single rank with mpirun. See "Singleton MPI_Init" for more on this kind of MPI job.

The environment variable checking answer from Douglas is a reasonable hack...but is not portable to any other MPI implementation.