Bug#895748: Default MPI

[Drew Parsons]

On Mon, 2018-04-16 at 11:14 +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> 
> One thing I could do is upload a new mpi-testsuite package, which
> tries
> to run (the MPICH testsuite mostly, IIRC) for both MPICH and OpenMPI;
> that might give some input on how good/bad they are on the various
> arches.

That's an excellent idea Michael.  We've got time before making the
decision on MPI defaults while we wait for the openmpi3 transition to
complete.  That's a good time for collecting data from testsuites.

Drew