OpenFOAM can not find (Windows/Microsoft) MPI libraries

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OpenFOAM can not find (Windows/Microsoft) MPI libraries

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I have installed Openfoam with MPI, however everytime I run simulation with Openfoam, the command window would warn that:

"Could not find mpirun or mpiexec, reverting to serial mode. Please install Microsoft MPI to enable parallel simulations.(https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=100593)."

I just want to run in parallel but it is beyond me why the parallel would fail? Could you kindly offer some instructions to the problem?
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Re: OpenFOAM can not find (Windows/Microsoft) MPI libraries

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The external solvers OpenFOAM, SU2, and FEniCS all depend on MPI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface) libraries to enable solving problems in parallel.

The interfaces are typically set-up automatically when installing the external solvers. If they are not you must install MPI libraries, which depends on your operating system (OS).

  https://www.featool.com/doc/openfoam.html#install_of_mpi

With OpenFOAM it is recommended to use the ESI distribution https://www.openfoam.com/download/openfoam-mingw-cross-compilation, which should include MPI libraries. Otherwise, as suggested in the error message Microsoft provides Windows compatible MPI libraries via https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=100593

You can test if the MPI libraries can be found by running the following commands in Matlab

  if( ispc() )
    [st1,res1] = system('mpiexec /?')
    [st2,res2] = system('mpirun /?"')
  else
    [st1,res1] = system('bash -c "mpiexec -V"')
    [st2,res2] = system('bash -c "mpirun -V"')
  end

if either of "st1" or "st2" return zero (0 = no system call error) MPI libraries could be found.