I will remind everyone that gfortran doesn't have enough Fortran 2008 support to provide mpi_f08 . Its true that gfortran is behind most other Fortran compilers and it is time to provide an F'08 binding; but expecting every user to be able to switch to the F08 binding immediately is not realistic. Bill William Gropp Director, Parallel Computing Institute Deputy Director for Research Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign On Jul 20, 2012, at 2:43 AM, Rolf Rabenseifner wrote:

Both mpich2 and OpenMPI have committed to provide mpi_f08, therefore there is not a real problem. There are other MPI's arround that never provided any Fortran support. Also okay.