To compile Auryn you need the boost libraries installed (if you do not want to install the complete library you will at least need the following components boost_program_options, boost_mpi, boost_serialization, boost_filesystem, boost_system), a recent version of an MPI compatible library such as MPICH2 or OpenMPI.

Under most debian deriviatives such as Debian, Ubuntu or MINT it should suffice to install

sudo apt-get install build-essential libboost-all-dev mpi-default-bin mpi-default-dev

• Spike-loss and random crashes experienced with with process numbers that were not a power of two. (OpenMPI 1.4.3)
• Random communication freezes for large messages (i.e. caused by synchronization in the network → many spikes in short time intervals). (OpenMPI 1.5.4)

When compiled against MPICH2 these problems did not occur.