diff --git a/doc/src/Run_options.txt b/doc/src/Run_options.txt
index 87b272a866..df1a57421a 100644
--- a/doc/src/Run_options.txt
+++ b/doc/src/Run_options.txt
@@ -126,9 +126,10 @@ are intended for computational work like running LAMMPS.  By default
 Ng = 1 and Ns is not set.
 
 Depending on which flavor of MPI you are running, LAMMPS will look for
-one of these 3 environment variables
+one of these 4 environment variables
 
 SLURM_LOCALID (various MPI variants compiled with SLURM support)
+MPT_LRANK (HPE MPI)
 MV2_COMM_WORLD_LOCAL_RANK (Mvapich)
 OMPI_COMM_WORLD_LOCAL_RANK (OpenMPI) :pre
 
diff --git a/src/KOKKOS/kokkos.cpp b/src/KOKKOS/kokkos.cpp
index 32550e8285..18dff991b2 100644
--- a/src/KOKKOS/kokkos.cpp
+++ b/src/KOKKOS/kokkos.cpp
@@ -113,23 +113,37 @@ KokkosLMP::KokkosLMP(LAMMPS *lmp, int narg, char **arg) : Pointers(lmp)
       }
       iarg += 2;
 
+      int set_flag = 0;
       char *str;
       if ((str = getenv("SLURM_LOCALID"))) {
         int local_rank = atoi(str);
         device = local_rank % ngpus;
         if (device >= skip_gpu) device++;
+        set_flag = 1;
+      }
+      if ((str = getenv("MPT_LRANK"))) {
+        int local_rank = atoi(str);
+        device = local_rank % ngpus;
+        if (device >= skip_gpu) device++;
+        set_flag = 1;
       }
       if ((str = getenv("MV2_COMM_WORLD_LOCAL_RANK"))) {
         int local_rank = atoi(str);
         device = local_rank % ngpus;
         if (device >= skip_gpu) device++;
+        set_flag = 1;
       }
       if ((str = getenv("OMPI_COMM_WORLD_LOCAL_RANK"))) {
         int local_rank = atoi(str);
         device = local_rank % ngpus;
         if (device >= skip_gpu) device++;
+        set_flag = 1;
       }
 
+      if (ngpus > 1 && !set_flag)
+        error->all(FLERR,"Could not determine local MPI rank for multiple "
+                           "GPUs with Kokkos CUDA because MPI library not recognized");
+
     } else if (strcmp(arg[iarg],"t") == 0 ||
                strcmp(arg[iarg],"threads") == 0) {
       nthreads = atoi(arg[iarg+1]);
diff --git a/src/KOKKOS/kokkos.h b/src/KOKKOS/kokkos.h
index b9f1e66c68..7b605bee1e 100644
--- a/src/KOKKOS/kokkos.h
+++ b/src/KOKKOS/kokkos.h
@@ -74,6 +74,11 @@ E: Invalid Kokkos command-line args
 
 Self-explanatory.  See Section 2.7 of the manual for details.
 
+E: Could not determine local MPI rank for multiple GPUs with Kokkos CUDA
+because MPI library not recognized
+
+The local MPI rank was not found in one of four supported environment variables.
+
 E: GPUs are requested but Kokkos has not been compiled for CUDA
 
 Recompile Kokkos with CUDA support to use GPUs.