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diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/openmpi/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/openmpi/package.py
index b0efe27def..f13feb123d 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/openmpi/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/openmpi/package.py
@@ -50,12 +50,14 @@ def _verbs_dir():
class Openmpi(Package):
- """Open MPI is a project combining technologies and resources from
- several other projects (FT-MPI, LA-MPI, LAM/MPI, and PACX-MPI)
- in order to build the best MPI library available. A completely
- new MPI-2 compliant implementation, Open MPI offers advantages
- for system and software vendors, application developers and
- computer science researchers.
+ """The Open MPI Project is an open source Message Passing Interface
+ implementation that is developed and maintained by a consortium
+ of academic, research, and industry partners. Open MPI is
+ therefore able to combine the expertise, technologies, and
+ resources from all across the High Performance Computing
+ community in order to build the best MPI library available.
+ Open MPI offers advantages for system and software vendors,
+ application developers and computer science researchers.
"""
homepage = "http://www.open-mpi.org"