Question: shall we update mpif90/mpirun to mpifort/mpiexec?

[rouson]

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Question:

1. The MPI 3.1 standard mentions that many implementations provide mpirun but recommends providing mpiexec.
2. MPI 3.1 mentions mpif90 in a similar manner but is silent on mpifort. However, comments online indicate a preference for the latter to liberate the name of the command from a specific revision of the Fortran standard.

I don't know of any implementations that don't provide mpirun or mpif90, but it seems reasonable to switch to mpifort and mpiexec for standard-conformance and clarity where the former two are employed. On the master branch, I find the following locations:

• windows-install.sh,
• at several places in find_or_install.sh, and
• at two places in report_results.sh.

Motivation: I'm introducing caf and cafrun early the new book so this is a good time to update these commands to versions that are more standard or modern.

[zbeekman]

doing this with #268

[rouson]

@zbeekman given the simplicity of this issue, shall we simply implement a quick fix rather than tie it to #268, of which this is presumably a tiny component?

[zbeekman]

sure, but it's not quite as trivial as it seems, because it pops up a few places... what I should do is just cherry pick the commit off my work and merge that.. I'll do that now

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