We default to "bind to socket" and if the sockets aren't all homogeneous, OMPI doesn't handle this properly. Reported by Marcin Krotkiewski here: http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2015/10/27770.php @rhc54 has told @ggouaillardet how he thinks it should be solved (and @rhc54 is mostly unavailable for another week or three)