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.

features:
* full mpi-2 standards conformance
* thread safety and concurrency
* dynamic process spawning
* high performance on all platforms
* reliable and fast job management
* network and process fault tolerance
* support network heterogeneity
* single library supports all networks
* run-time instrumentation
* many job schedulers supported
* internationalized error messages
* component-based design, documented apis
this package contains the open mpi utility programs.