• OpenMPI

  download http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.6/downloads/openmpi-1.6.3.tar.gz (or whatever the latest stable release).

  install OpenMPI into $HOME/local/openmpi

  Put openmpi-1.6.3.tar.gz under /tmp/<some directory>

  Run the following commands:

  $ tar xvfz openmpi-1.6.3.tar.gz

  $ cd openmpi-1.6.3

$ make sure that the configure/make/make install process is done with a c++0x compiler. In os X you can use "gcc select" to select the right gcc compiler

$ ./configure –prefix=$HOME/local/openmpi –with-openib=/usr –with-sge CC=icc CXX=icpc F77=ifort FC=ifort

$ make

$ make install