[OMPI users] Windows support for OpenMPI

[Damien]

All,

I completely missed the message about Shiqing departing as the OpenMPI 
Windows maintainer.  I'll try and keep Windows builds going for 1.6 at 
least, I have 2011 and 2013 Intel licenses and VS2008 and 2012, but not 
2010.  I see that the 1.6.3 code base already doesn't build on Windows 
in VS2012  :-(.

While I can try and keep builds going, I don't have access to a Windows 
cluster right now, and I'm flat out on two other projects. I can test on 
my workstation, but that will only go so far. Longer-term, there needs 
to be a decision made on whether Windows gets to be a first-class 
citizen in OpenMPI or not.  Jeff's already told me that 1.7 is lagging 
behind on Windows.  It would be a shame to have all the work Shiqing put 
in gradually decay because it can't be supported enough.  If there's any 
Microsoft/HPC/Azure folks observing this list, or any other vendors who 
run on Windows with OpenMPI, maybe we can see what can be done if you're 
interested.

Damien