get mpi4py from:
https://github.com/mchaarawi/mpi4py.git
or any version (which requires update test_io.py to remove unsupported functionality):
https://bitbucket.org/mpi4py/mpi4py/downloads/mpi4py-3.0.0.tar.gz
https://github.com/mpi4py/mpi4py.git
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After configure and building MPICH (see directions here):
python setup.py build
python setup.py install --user
Launch server(s)
Using all the directions from this page for client side execution you can:
fname="daos:"+fname
remove the tests that are not supported:
testReadWriteShared
testIReadIWriteShared
testReadWriteOrdered
testReadWriteOrderedBeginEnd
mpiexec -n 8 python test_io_daos.py
Passing / Should Pass all tests