diff --git a/ThirdParty/AllMake.stage2 b/ThirdParty/AllMake.stage2
index 9f8f81e24..22d97abc9 100755
--- a/ThirdParty/AllMake.stage2
+++ b/ThirdParty/AllMake.stage2
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ then
     # MPI
     #( rpm_make -p openmpi-1.4.1 -s openmpi-1.4.1.spec  -u http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.4/downloads/openmpi-1.4.1.tar.gz )
     #( rpm_make -p openmpi-1.5   -s openmpi-1.5.spec    -u http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.5/downloads/openmpi-1.5.tar.gz   )
-     ( rpm_make -p openmpi-1.4.3 -s openmpi-1.4.3.spec  -u http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.4/downloads/openmpi-1.4.3.tar.gz )
+    #( rpm_make -p openmpi-1.4.3 -s openmpi-1.4.3.spec  -u http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.4/downloads/openmpi-1.4.3.tar.gz )
+     ( rpm_make -p openmpi-1.6.3 -s openmpi-1.6.3.spec  -u http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.6/downloads/openmpi-1.6.3.tar.gz )
 else
     echo "Using system installed OpenMPI"
     echo ""
diff --git a/ThirdParty/rpmBuild/SPECS/openmpi-1.6.3.spec b/ThirdParty/rpmBuild/SPECS/openmpi-1.6.3.spec
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..28daffb9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ThirdParty/rpmBuild/SPECS/openmpi-1.6.3.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,248 @@
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# =========                 |
+# \\      /  F ield         | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox
+#  \\    /   O peration     |
+#   \\  /    A nd           | Copyright held by original author
+#    \\/     M anipulation  |
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# License
+#     This file is part of OpenFOAM.
+#
+#     OpenFOAM is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+#     under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
+#     Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
+#     option) any later version.
+#
+#     OpenFOAM is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+#     ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+#     FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+#     for more details.
+#
+#     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#     along with OpenFOAM; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+#     Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+#
+# Script
+#     RPM spec file for openmpi-1.6.3
+#
+# Description
+#     RPM spec file for creating a relocatable RPM
+#
+# Author:
+#     Martin Beaudoin, Hydro-Quebec, (2010)
+#
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# We grab the value of WM_THIRD_PARTY and WM_OPTIONS from the environment variable
+%{expand:%%define _WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR %(echo $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR)}
+%{expand:%%define _WM_OPTIONS         %(echo $WM_OPTIONS)}
+
+# Disable the generation of debuginfo packages
+%define debug_package %{nil}
+
+# The topdir needs to point to the $WM_THIRD_PARTY/rpmbuild directory
+%define _topdir	 	%{_WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR}/rpmBuild
+%define _tmppath	%{_topdir}/tmp
+
+# Will install the package directly $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR
+#   Some comments about package relocation:
+#   By using this prefix for the Prefix:  parameter in thi file, you will make this
+#   package relocatable.
+#
+#   This is fine, as long as your software is itself relocatable.
+#
+#   Simply take note that libraries built with libtool are not relocatable because the
+#   prefix we specify will be hard-coded in the library .la files.
+#   Ref: http://sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_80.html
+#
+#   In that case, if you ever change the value of the $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR, you will
+#   not be able to reutilize this RPM, even though it is relocatable. You will need to
+#   regenerate the RPM.
+#
+%define _prefix         %{_WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR}
+
+%define name		openmpi
+%define release		%{_WM_OPTIONS}
+%define version 	1.6.3
+
+%define buildroot       %{_topdir}/BUILD/%{name}-%{version}-root
+
+BuildRoot:	        %{buildroot}
+Summary: 		openmpi
+License: 		Unkown
+Name: 			%{name}
+Version: 		%{version}
+Release: 		%{release}
+URL:                    http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.6/downloads
+Source: 		%url/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+Prefix: 		%{_prefix}
+Group: 			Development/Tools
+
+
+%define _installPrefix  %{_prefix}/packages/%{name}-%{version}/platforms/%{_WM_OPTIONS}
+
+%description
+%{summary}
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+
+%build
+    # export WM settings in a form that GNU configure recognizes
+    [ -n "$WM_CC" ]         &&  export CC="$WM_CC"
+    [ -n "$WM_CXX" ]        &&  export CXX="$WM_CXX"
+    [ -n "$WM_CFLAGS" ]     &&  export CFLAGS="$WM_CFLAGS"
+    [ -n "$WM_CXXFLAGS" ]   &&  export CXXFLAGS="$WM_CXXFLAGS"
+    [ -n "$WM_LDFLAGS" ]    &&  export LDFLAGS="$WM_LDFLAGS"
+
+    unset mpiWith
+    # Enable GridEngine if it appears to be in use
+    # If you don't want any integration with SGE, simply unset the SGE
+    # environment variable
+    if [ -n "$SGE_ROOT" ]
+    then
+        mpiWith="$mpiWith --with-sge"
+    else
+        mpiWith="$mpiWith --without-sge"
+	mpiWith="$mpiWith --enable-mca-no-build=ras-gridengine,pls-gridengine"
+    fi
+
+    # Infiniband support
+    # Adjust according to your local paths
+    # if [ -d /usr/local/ofed -a -d /usr/local/ofed/lib64 ]
+    # then
+    #     mpiWith="$mpiWith --with-openib=/usr/local/ofed"
+    #     mpiWith="$mpiWith --with-openib-libdir=/usr/local/ofed/lib64"
+    # fi
+
+    ./configure \
+        --prefix=%{_installPrefix}  \
+        --exec_prefix=%{_installPrefix}  \
+        --enable-mpirun-prefix-by-default \
+        --enable-orterun-prefix-by-default \
+        --enable-shared \
+	--disable-static \
+        --disable-mpi-f77 \
+        --disable-mpi-f90 \
+        --disable-mpi-cxx \
+        --without-slurm \
+        --enable-mpi-profile $mpiWith
+
+    [ -z "$WM_NCOMPPROCS" ] && WM_NCOMPPROCS=1
+    make -j $WM_NCOMPPROCS
+
+%install
+    make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+
+    # Creation of OpenFOAM specific .csh and .sh files"
+
+    echo ""
+    echo "Generating OpenFOAM specific .csh and .sh files for the package %{name}-%{version}"
+    echo ""
+    #
+    # Generate package specific .sh file for OpenFOAM
+    #
+mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_installPrefix}/etc
+cat << DOT_SH_EOF > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_installPrefix}/etc/%{name}-%{version}.sh
+# Load %{name}-%{version} libraries and binaries
+# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+export OPENMPI_DIR=\$WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR/packages/%{name}-%{version}/platforms/\$WM_OPTIONS
+export OPENMPI_BIN_DIR=\$OPENMPI_DIR/bin
+export OPENMPI_LIB_DIR=\$OPENMPI_DIR/lib
+
+# Enable access to the package runtime applications and libraries
+[ -d \$OPENMPI_BIN_DIR ] && _foamAddPath \$OPENMPI_BIN_DIR
+[ -d \$OPENMPI_LIB_DIR ] && _foamAddLib  \$OPENMPI_LIB_DIR
+
+export MPI_HOME=\$OPENMPI_DIR
+export MPI_ARCH_PATH=\$MPI_HOME
+export OPAL_PREFIX=\$MPI_ARCH_PATH
+
+# We initialize the rest of the environment using mpicc --showme:
+export OPENMPI_INCLUDE_DIR="\`mpicc --showme:incdirs\`"
+export OPENMPI_COMPILE_FLAGS="\`mpicc --showme:compile\`"
+export OPENMPI_LINK_FLAGS="\`mpicc --showme:link\`"
+
+# Set the OpenFOAM compilation flags
+export PINC=\$OPENMPI_COMPILE_FLAGS
+export PLIBS=\$OPENMPI_LINK_FLAGS
+
+
+if [ "\$FOAM_VERBOSE" -a "\$PS1" ]
+then
+    echo "  Environment variables defined for OpenMPI:"
+    echo "    OPENMPI_BIN_DIR       : \$OPENMPI_BIN_DIR"
+    echo "    OPENMPI_LIB_DIR       : \$OPENMPI_LIB_DIR"
+    echo "    OPENMPI_INCLUDE_DIR   : \$OPENMPI_INCLUDE_DIR"
+    echo "    OPENMPI_COMPILE_FLAGS : \$OPENMPI_COMPILE_FLAGS"
+    echo "    OPENMPI_LINK_FLAGS    : \$OPENMPI_LINK_FLAGS"
+    echo ""
+    echo "    MPI_HOME              : \$MPI_HOME"
+    echo "    MPI_ARCH_PATH         : \$MPI_ARCH_PATH"
+    echo "    OPAL_PREFIX           : \$OPAL_PREFIX"
+    echo "    PINC                  : \$PINC"
+    echo "    PLIBS                 : \$PLIBS"
+fi
+DOT_SH_EOF
+
+    #
+    # Generate package specific .csh file for OpenFOAM
+    #
+cat << DOT_CSH_EOF > $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_installPrefix}/etc/%{name}-%{version}.csh
+# Load %{name}-%{version} libraries and binaries
+# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+setenv OPENMPI_DIR \$WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR/packages/%{name}-%{version}/platforms/\$WM_OPTIONS
+setenv OPENMPI_BIN_DIR \$OPENMPI_DIR/bin
+setenv OPENMPI_LIB_DIR \$OPENMPI_DIR/lib
+
+# Enable access to the package runtime applications and libraries
+if ( -e \$OPENMPI_BIN_DIR ) then
+    _foamAddPath \$OPENMPI_BIN_DIR
+endif
+
+if ( -e \$OPENMPI_LIB_DIR ) then
+    _foamAddLib \$OPENMPI_LIB_DIR
+endif
+
+setenv MPI_HOME \$OPENMPI_DIR
+setenv MPI_ARCH_PATH \$MPI_HOME
+setenv OPAL_PREFIX \$MPI_ARCH_PATH
+
+# We initialize the rest of the environment using mpicc --showme:
+setenv OPENMPI_INCLUDE_DIR "\`mpicc --showme:incdirs\`"
+setenv OPENMPI_COMPILE_FLAGS "\`mpicc --showme:compile\`"
+setenv OPENMPI_LINK_FLAGS "\`mpicc --showme:link\`"
+
+# Set the OpenFOAM compilation flags
+setenv PINC "\$OPENMPI_COMPILE_FLAGS"
+setenv PLIBS "\$OPENMPI_LINK_FLAGS"
+
+
+if (\$?FOAM_VERBOSE && \$?prompt) then
+    echo "  Environment variables defined for OpenMPI:"
+    echo "    OPENMPI_BIN_DIR       : \$OPENMPI_BIN_DIR"
+    echo "    OPENMPI_LIB_DIR       : \$OPENMPI_LIB_DIR"
+    echo "    OPENMPI_INCLUDE_DIR   : \$OPENMPI_INCLUDE_DIR"
+    echo "    OPENMPI_COMPILE_FLAGS : \$OPENMPI_COMPILE_FLAGS"
+    echo "    OPENMPI_LINK_FLAGS    : \$OPENMPI_LINK_FLAGS"
+    echo ""
+    echo "    MPI_HOME              : \$MPI_HOME"
+    echo "    MPI_ARCH_PATH         : \$MPI_ARCH_PATH"
+    echo "    OPAL_PREFIX           : \$OPAL_PREFIX"
+    echo "    PINC                  : \$PINC"
+    echo "    PLIBS                 : \$PLIBS"
+endif
+DOT_CSH_EOF
+
+    #finally, generate a .tgz file for systems where using rpm for installing packages
+    # as a non-root user might be a problem.
+    (mkdir -p  %{_topdir}/TGZS/%{_target_cpu}; cd $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_prefix}; tar -zcvf %{_topdir}/TGZS/%{_target_cpu}/%{name}-%{version}.tgz  packages/%{name}-%{version})
+
+
+%clean
+rm -rf %{buildroot}
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%{_installPrefix}
diff --git a/etc/settings.sh b/etc/settings.sh
index d40c1d680..c7beab3b0 100644
--- a/etc/settings.sh
+++ b/etc/settings.sh
@@ -202,7 +202,16 @@ unset MPI_ARCH_PATH
 mpi_version=unknown
 case "$WM_MPLIB" in
 OPENMPI)
-    if [ -e $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR/packages/openmpi-1.4.3/platforms/$WM_OPTIONS ]
+    if [ -e $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR/packages/openmpi-1.6.3/platforms/$WM_OPTIONS ]
+        then
+        mpi_version=openmpi-1.6.3
+        if [ "$FOAM_VERBOSE" -a "$PS1" ]
+        then
+            echo "Using openmpi-1.6.3 from the ThirdParty package: $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR/packages/$mpi_version"
+        fi
+        _foamSource  $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR/packages/$mpi_version/platforms/$WM_OPTIONS/etc/$mpi_version.sh
+
+    elif [ -e $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR/packages/openmpi-1.4.3/platforms/$WM_OPTIONS ]
         then
         mpi_version=openmpi-1.4.3
         if [ "$FOAM_VERBOSE" -a "$PS1" ]