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        On 19 Mar 2018, at 17:52, Ham, David A <david.ham@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
I’m in favour of dumping OpenMPI. It also causes us parallel test issues cf https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/issues/1199
Are there any downsides with going to mpich?
All the ubuntu packages that link against MPI are built against OpenMPI. We need to be very careful that when we install on such systems that we don't accidentally end up getting the wrong one. Lawrence