1. Download and install Intel Fortran Compiler
 1. Make sure Intel Fortran compiler is available to PATH and it's libraries and is capable of compiling
    * I added this to my path:
    {{{
source /opt/intel/fc/10.1.015/bin/ifortvars.sh
}}}
    * I also needed to install libstd5
    {{{
#found this with apt-file search filename
sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
}}}

 1. Download openmpi
 1. Configure openmpi; make sure it can build fortran code
    {{{
#http://support.intel.com/support/performancetools/sb/CS-026988.htm
tar -xzvf openmpi-1.2.6.tar.gz
cd openmpi-1.2.6
./configure --prefix=/usr/local F77=/opt/intel/fc/10.1.015/bin/ifort FC=/opt/intel/fc/10.1.015/bin/ifort
sudo make all install
}}}
 1. Download and extract SuperLU_DIST_2.2
 1. Copy MAKE_INC/<yourplatform.inc> to make.inc.  For me it was make.i386_linux.
 1. Edit make.inc
    * Change DSuperLUroot to point to wherever you've extracted the SuperLU source code
    * Change LOADER to mpicc.  I'm not sure yet if this was a good thing.
    * Make kept failing because it was missing for_write_seq_fmt_xmit.  I Added this
    {{{
LOADOPTS        = -lblas -L/opt/intel/fc/10.1.015/lib/ -lifcore
}}}
 1. Make
 1. Copy <superlu>/lib to /opt/pydusa/pydusa/mympi/src
 1. Change Options.mk so that LLIBS includes -L/opt/pydusa/pydusa/mympi/src/ -lsuperlu_dist_2.0
 1. ???
 1. make
 1. make test

=== On hexahedral ===
 1. attachment:make.inc

=== On Lys (32 bit linux Red Hat ) ===
I followed essentially the same directions as above, but did not install libstd5
 1. Installed latest version of OpenMPI
 1. Configure openmpi; make sure it can build fortran code
    {{{
#http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.4/
tar -xzvf openmpi-1.4.2.tar.gz
cd openmpi-1.4.2
./configure --prefix=/usr/local F77=/opt/intel/fc/10.0.023/bin/ifort FC=/opt/intel/fc/10.0.023/bin/ifort
make all install <-- This needs to be done as root
}}}
 1. Compile the mpi module within Continuity, no changes where made to any Makefiles there. 
    {{{
cd $CONT_ROOT/src/mpi
make
}}}
 1. Compile the distributed version of SuperLU (version 2.4 was used here), as above I had to modify the make.inc file to conform to my platform.  The main difference from above is I had to add '-lg2c' to the LOADOPTS parameter, and of course change the locations/names of the BLAS, METISLIB, and PARMETISLIB library files.  attachment:lys_make.inc
  {{{
LOADOPTS        = -lblas -L/opt/intel/fc/10.0.023/lib/ -lifcore -lg2c
}}}
 1. Compile the python interface to SuperLU_Dist, located at $CONT_ROOT/src/solvers/dist_superlu.  I had to make the following changes to the default Makefile, in addition to the location of various libraries.
  {{{
PINC = -I$(PY_ROOT)/include/python2.5 -I$(PY_ROOT)/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/core/include/numpy -I$(PY_ROOT)/lib/python2.5/site-packages/numpy/core/include -I$(CONT_ROOT)/src/solverLibraries/SuperLU_DIST_2.4/SRC/

LIBS = -lm -lg2c -L/opt/intel/fc/10.0.023/lib/ -lifcore $(SLU_LIB) $(BLAS_LIB) $(PARMETIS_LIB) $(METIS_LIB)
}}}
 1. Lastly, I was getting a python error when running the src/solvers/dist_superlu/make test: ''python2.5: relocation error: /usr/local/lib/openmpi/mca_paffinity_linux.so: undefined symbol: mca_base_param_reg_int'', so I had to set:
  {{{
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/openmpi/lib/libmpi.so
}}}
 and the test succeeded after setting LD_PRELOAD.

=== On oolite (64 bit linux cluster ) ===
The instructions on lys mostly hold for oolite.  Not having root priviledges, I had to install things in my local directories.   
 1. I downloaded/installed openMPI and configured it as above (i.e., I included Intel Fortran compiler), the openmpi on oolite at /opt/openmpi seemed to have been built using gfortran.
 1. Downloaded and installed Parmetis from http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/parmetis/download, added -fPIC to OPTFLAGS
 1. Compiled $CONT_ROOT/src/mpi
 1. Compiled $CONT_ROOT/src/solverLibraries/SuperLU_DIST_2.4, after modifying the make.inc file, the major change from what was done on lys was:
 {{{
LOADOPTS        = -fPIC -lblas -L/opt/intel/Compiler/11.1/072/lib/intel64/ -lifcore -lirc -lsvml
}}}
 1. Compiled $CONT_ROOT/src/solvers/dist_superlu, making the same changes to the Makefile as for lys, expect:
 {{{
LIBS = -lm -L/opt/intel/Compiler/11.1/072/lib/intel64 -lifcore -lsvml $(SLU_LIB) $(BLAS_LIB) $(PARMETIS_LIB) $(METIS_LIB)
}}}
 1. As with lys, I had to do the LD_PRELOAD setting to get the 'make test' to work.