Open mpi is a project combining technologies and resources from several other projects (ft-mpi, la-mpi, lam/mpi, and pacx-mpi) in order to build the best mpi library available. a completely new mpi-2 compliant implementation, open mpi offers advantages for system and software vendors, application developers and computer science researchers.

this package contains the header files and compiler wrappers which are needed to compile and link programs against libopenmpi.