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 MPICH2: 
-to run in parallel. 
-First fire up smpd in a command line under Administrator privileges: 
-smpd -restart
+to run in parallel.  First install MPICH2 from www.mpich.org/downloads. Make 
+sure the install directory in C:\Program Files\MPICH2, otherwise, ISSM will 
+not be able to figure out where the mpi libraries are installed on your windows platform.
+
+Then fire up smpd in a command line under Administrator privileges: 
+smpd -install
 
 Then: 
@@ -65,2 +68,4 @@
 
 Then you are ready to run parallel.
+
+To do: how do we document this? Create webpage for all of this. + get a fortran compiler giong!