We have installed the most recent Mvapich2 stack (2.0rc1), which is available via module “mvapich2/2.0rc1”. Please see this changelog if you would like to know more about the improvements this version provides.
Also, please note that we have not started rebuilding any applications with this stack yet. If you think it will provide significant benefits for any existing application, please send us an email to pace-support@oit.gatech.edu and we will be happy to recompile that application for you.
Another quick note is that versions mvapich1.6 to mvapich1.8 are known to have performance problems, which are fixed with 1.8 (hint: search for “Georgia Institute of Technology” in the changelog). We are still keeping them in the repository for backwards compatibility, but please refrain from using these old versions as you can.
Happy computing!