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nixpkgs/manual: add a paragraph about MPI switching mechanism

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@ -291,5 +291,40 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
}
</programlisting>
</section>
<section xml:id="sec-overlays-alternatives-mpi">
<title>Switching the MPI implementation</title>
<para>
All programs that are built with
<link xlink:href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface">MPI</link>
support use the generic attribute <varname>mpi</varname>
as an input. At the moment Nixpkgs natively provides two different
MPI implementations:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
<link xlink:href="https://www.open-mpi.org/">Open MPI</link>
(default), attribute name <varname>openmpi</varname>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
<link xlink:href="https://www.mpich.org/">MPICH</link>,
attribute name <varname>mpich</varname>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>
To provide MPI enabled applications that use <literal>MPICH</literal>, instead
of the default <literal>Open MPI</literal>, simply use the following overlay:
</para>
<programlisting>
self: super:
{
mpi = self.mpich;
}
</programlisting>
</section>
</section>
</chapter>