diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
index 61771390ca..06085f235a 100644
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -410,7 +410,6 @@
 ./perform/chunk.c
 ./perform/gen_report.pl
 ./perform/iopipe.c
-./perform/mpi-perf.c
 ./perform/overhead.c
 ./perform/perf.c
 ./perform/perf_meta.c
diff --git a/perform/Makefile.am b/perform/Makefile.am
index 4b44b4335e..5d0e11d21e 100644
--- a/perform/Makefile.am
+++ b/perform/Makefile.am
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ h5perf_serial_LDFLAGS = $(LT_STATIC_EXEC) $(AM_LDFLAGS)
 # specifying --enable-build-all at configure time.
 # Also, some of these programs should only be built in parallel.
 if BUILD_PARALLEL_CONDITIONAL
-    PARA_BUILD_ALL=benchpar mpi-perf
+    PARA_BUILD_ALL=benchpar
 endif
 if BUILD_ALL_CONDITIONAL
     BUILD_ALL_PROGS=$(PARA_BUILD_ALL)
diff --git a/perform/Makefile.in b/perform/Makefile.in
index 13c4904b51..139d1eacd0 100644
--- a/perform/Makefile.in
+++ b/perform/Makefile.in
@@ -90,8 +90,7 @@ CONFIG_HEADER = $(top_builddir)/src/H5config.h
 CONFIG_CLEAN_FILES =
 CONFIG_CLEAN_VPATH_FILES =
 am__installdirs = "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)"
-@BUILD_PARALLEL_CONDITIONAL_TRUE@am__EXEEXT_1 = benchpar$(EXEEXT) \
-@BUILD_PARALLEL_CONDITIONAL_TRUE@	mpi-perf$(EXEEXT)
+@BUILD_PARALLEL_CONDITIONAL_TRUE@am__EXEEXT_1 = benchpar$(EXEEXT)
 @BUILD_ALL_CONDITIONAL_TRUE@am__EXEEXT_2 = $(am__EXEEXT_1)
 PROGRAMS = $(bin_PROGRAMS)
 benchpar_SOURCES = benchpar.c
@@ -123,10 +122,6 @@ h5perf_serial_LINK = $(LIBTOOL) $(AM_V_lt) --tag=CC $(AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS) \
 iopipe_SOURCES = iopipe.c
 iopipe_OBJECTS = iopipe.$(OBJEXT)
 iopipe_DEPENDENCIES = $(LIBH5TEST) $(LIBHDF5)
-mpi_perf_SOURCES = mpi-perf.c
-mpi_perf_OBJECTS = mpi-perf.$(OBJEXT)
-mpi_perf_LDADD = $(LDADD)
-mpi_perf_DEPENDENCIES = $(LIBHDF5)
 overhead_SOURCES = overhead.c
 overhead_OBJECTS = overhead.$(OBJEXT)
 overhead_LDADD = $(LDADD)
@@ -175,10 +170,10 @@ am__v_CCLD_ = $(am__v_CCLD_@AM_DEFAULT_V@)
 am__v_CCLD_0 = @echo "  CCLD    " $@;
 am__v_CCLD_1 = 
 SOURCES = benchpar.c chunk.c $(h5perf_SOURCES) \
-	$(h5perf_serial_SOURCES) iopipe.c mpi-perf.c overhead.c perf.c \
+	$(h5perf_serial_SOURCES) iopipe.c overhead.c perf.c \
 	perf_meta.c zip_perf.c
 DIST_SOURCES = benchpar.c chunk.c $(h5perf_SOURCES) \
-	$(h5perf_serial_SOURCES) iopipe.c mpi-perf.c overhead.c perf.c \
+	$(h5perf_serial_SOURCES) iopipe.c overhead.c perf.c \
 	perf_meta.c zip_perf.c
 am__can_run_installinfo = \
   case $$AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR in \
@@ -482,7 +477,7 @@ h5perf_serial_LDFLAGS = $(LT_STATIC_EXEC) $(AM_LDFLAGS)
 # Some programs are not built or run by default, but can be built by hand or by
 # specifying --enable-build-all at configure time.
 # Also, some of these programs should only be built in parallel.
-@BUILD_PARALLEL_CONDITIONAL_TRUE@PARA_BUILD_ALL = benchpar mpi-perf
+@BUILD_PARALLEL_CONDITIONAL_TRUE@PARA_BUILD_ALL = benchpar
 @BUILD_ALL_CONDITIONAL_TRUE@BUILD_ALL_PROGS = $(PARA_BUILD_ALL)
 
 # Define programs that will be run in 'make check'
@@ -632,9 +627,6 @@ h5perf_serial$(EXEEXT): $(h5perf_serial_OBJECTS) $(h5perf_serial_DEPENDENCIES) $
 iopipe$(EXEEXT): $(iopipe_OBJECTS) $(iopipe_DEPENDENCIES) $(EXTRA_iopipe_DEPENDENCIES) 
 	@rm -f iopipe$(EXEEXT)
 	$(AM_V_CCLD)$(LINK) $(iopipe_OBJECTS) $(iopipe_LDADD) $(LIBS)
-mpi-perf$(EXEEXT): $(mpi_perf_OBJECTS) $(mpi_perf_DEPENDENCIES) $(EXTRA_mpi_perf_DEPENDENCIES) 
-	@rm -f mpi-perf$(EXEEXT)
-	$(AM_V_CCLD)$(LINK) $(mpi_perf_OBJECTS) $(mpi_perf_LDADD) $(LIBS)
 overhead$(EXEEXT): $(overhead_OBJECTS) $(overhead_DEPENDENCIES) $(EXTRA_overhead_DEPENDENCIES) 
 	@rm -f overhead$(EXEEXT)
 	$(AM_V_CCLD)$(LINK) $(overhead_OBJECTS) $(overhead_LDADD) $(LIBS)
@@ -657,7 +649,6 @@ distclean-compile:
 @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote@./$(DEPDIR)/benchpar.Po@am__quote@
 @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote@./$(DEPDIR)/chunk.Po@am__quote@
 @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote@./$(DEPDIR)/iopipe.Po@am__quote@
-@AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote@./$(DEPDIR)/mpi-perf.Po@am__quote@
 @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote@./$(DEPDIR)/overhead.Po@am__quote@
 @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote@./$(DEPDIR)/perf.Po@am__quote@
 @AMDEP_TRUE@@am__include@ @am__quote@./$(DEPDIR)/perf_meta.Po@am__quote@
diff --git a/perform/mpi-perf.c b/perform/mpi-perf.c
deleted file mode 100644
index a09d6723c4..0000000000
--- a/perform/mpi-perf.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,373 +0,0 @@
-/* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
- * Copyright by The HDF Group.                                               *
- * Copyright by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.         *
- * All rights reserved.                                                      *
- *                                                                           *
- * This file is part of HDF5.  The full HDF5 copyright notice, including     *
- * terms governing use, modification, and redistribution, is contained in    *
- * the files COPYING and Copyright.html.  COPYING can be found at the root   *
- * of the source code distribution tree; Copyright.html can be found at the  *
- * root level of an installed copy of the electronic HDF5 document set and   *
- * is linked from the top-level documents page.  It can also be found at     *
- * http://hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/Copyright.html.  If you do not have          *
- * access to either file, you may request a copy from help@hdfgroup.org.     *
- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
-
-/*
- * (C) 1995-2001 Clemson University and Argonne National Laboratory.
- *
- * See COPYING in top-level directory.
- *
- * This is contributed by Robert Ross to the HDF5 software.
- * and was called mpi-io-test.c
- */
-
-#include "hdf5.h"
-#include "H5private.h"
-#ifdef H5_HAVE_PARALLEL
-/* mpi-perf.c
- *
- * This is derived from code given to me by Rajeev Thakur.  Dunno where
- * it originated.
- *
- * It's purpose is to produce aggregate bandwidth numbers for varying
- * block sizes, number of processors, an number of iterations.
- *
- * This is strictly an mpi program - it is used to test the MPI I/O
- * functionality implemented by Romio.
- *
- * Compiling is usually easiest with something like:
- * mpicc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes mpi-io-test.c -o mpi-io-test
- *
- * NOTE: This code assumes that all command line arguments make it out to all
- * the processes that make up the parallel job, which isn't always the case.
- * So if it doesn't work on some platform, that might be why.
- */
-/* Modifications:
- *    Albert Cheng, Apr 30, 20001
- *    Changed MPI_File_open to use MPI_COMM_WORLD (was MPI_COMM_SELF).
- *    Albert Cheng, May 5, 20001
- *    Changed MPI_File_seek then MPI_File_write or MPI_File_read to just
- *    MPI_File_write_at and MPI_File_read_at.  Some compiler, e.g., IBM
- *    mpcc_r does not support MPI_File_seek and MPI_File_read or MPI_File_write.
- */
-
-#include <stdio.h>
-#include <stdlib.h>
-#include <fcntl.h>
-#ifdef H5_HAVE_UNISTD_H
-#include <unistd.h>
-#endif
-#include <errno.h>
-#include <string.h>
-#if defined(H5_TIME_WITH_SYS_TIME)
-#   include <sys/time.h>
-#   include <time.h>
-#elif defined(H5_HAVE_SYS_TIME_H)
-#   include <sys/time.h>
-#else
-#   include <time.h>
-#endif
-#include <mpi.h>
-#ifndef MPI_FILE_NULL           /*MPIO may be defined in mpi.h already       */
-#   include <mpio.h>
-#endif
-
-
-
-/* DEFAULT VALUES FOR OPTIONS */
-int64_t opt_block     = 1048576*16;
-int     opt_iter      = 1;
-int     opt_stripe    = -1;
-int     opt_correct   = 0;
-int     amode         = O_RDWR | O_CREAT;
-char    opt_file[256] = "/tmp/test.out\0";
-char    opt_pvfstab[256] = "notset\0";
-int     opt_pvfstab_set = 0;
-
-/* function prototypes */
-static int parse_args(int argc, char **argv);
-
-extern int errno;
-
-/* globals needed for getopt */
-extern char *optarg;
-
-int main(int argc, char **argv)
-{
-    char *buf, *tmp, *buf2, *tmp2, *check;
-    int i, j, mynod=0, nprocs=1, err, my_correct = 1, correct, myerrno;
-    double stim, etim;
-    double write_tim = 0;
-    double read_tim = 0;
-    double read_bw, write_bw;
-    double max_read_tim, max_write_tim;
-    double min_read_tim, min_write_tim;
-    double ave_read_tim, ave_write_tim;
-    int64_t iter_jump = 0;
-    int64_t seek_position = 0;
-    MPI_File fh;
-    MPI_Status status;
-    int nchars;
-
-    /* startup MPI and determine the rank of this process */
-    MPI_Init(&argc,&argv);
-    MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &nprocs);
-    MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &mynod);
-
-    /* parse the command line arguments */
-    parse_args(argc, argv);
-
-    if (mynod == 0) printf("# Using mpi-io calls.\n");
-
-
-    /* kindof a weird hack- if the location of the pvfstab file was
-     * specified on the command line, then spit out this location into
-     * the appropriate environment variable: */
-
-#if H5_HAVE_SETENV
-/* no setenv or unsetenv */
-    if (opt_pvfstab_set) {
-            if((setenv("PVFSTAB_FILE", opt_pvfstab, 1)) < 0){
-                    perror("setenv");
-                    goto die_jar_jar_die;
-            }
-    }
-#endif
-
-    /* this is how much of the file data is covered on each iteration of
-     * the test.  used to help determine the seek offset on each
-     * iteration */
-    iter_jump = nprocs * opt_block;
-
-    /* setup a buffer of data to write */
-    if (!(tmp = (char *) malloc(opt_block + 256))) {
-            perror("malloc");
-            goto die_jar_jar_die;
-    }
-    buf = tmp + 128 - (((long)tmp) % 128);  /* align buffer */
-
-    if (opt_correct) {
-            /* do the same buffer setup for verifiable data */
-            if (!(tmp2 = (char *) malloc(opt_block + 256))) {
-                    perror("malloc2");
-                    goto die_jar_jar_die;
-             }
-            buf2 = tmp + 128 - (((long)tmp) % 128);
-    }
-
-    /* open the file for writing */
-    err = MPI_File_open(MPI_COMM_WORLD, opt_file,
-    MPI_MODE_CREATE | MPI_MODE_RDWR, MPI_INFO_NULL, &fh);
-    if (err < 0) {
-            fprintf(stderr, "node %d, open error: %s\n", mynod, strerror(errno));
-            goto die_jar_jar_die;
-    }
-
-    /* now repeat the write operations the number of times
-     * specified on the command line */
-    for (j=0; j < opt_iter; j++) {
-
-            /* calculate the appropriate position depending on the iteration
-             * and rank of the current process */
-            seek_position = (j*iter_jump)+(mynod*opt_block);
-
-            if (opt_correct) /* fill in buffer for iteration */ {
-                    for (i=mynod+j, check=buf; i<opt_block; i++,check++) *check=(char)i;
-            }
-
-            /* discover the starting time of the operation */
-       MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD);
-       stim = MPI_Wtime();
-
-            /* write out the data */
-            nchars = opt_block/sizeof(char);
-            err = MPI_File_write_at(fh, seek_position, buf, nchars, MPI_CHAR, &status);
-            if(err){
-                    fprintf(stderr, "node %d, write error: %s\n", mynod,
-                    strerror(errno));
-            }
-
-            /* discover the ending time of the operation */
-       etim = MPI_Wtime();
-
-       write_tim += (etim - stim);
-
-            /* we are done with this "write" iteration */
-    }
-
-    err = MPI_File_close(&fh);
-    if(err){
-            fprintf(stderr, "node %d, close error after write\n", mynod);
-    }
-
-    /* wait for everyone to synchronize at this point */
-    MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD);
-
-    /* reopen the file to read the data back out */
-    err = MPI_File_open(MPI_COMM_WORLD, opt_file,
-    MPI_MODE_CREATE | MPI_MODE_RDWR, MPI_INFO_NULL, &fh);
-    if (err < 0) {
-            fprintf(stderr, "node %d, open error: %s\n", mynod, strerror(errno));
-            goto die_jar_jar_die;
-    }
-
-
-    /* we are going to repeat the read operation the number of iterations
-     * specified */
-    for (j=0; j < opt_iter; j++) {
-            /* calculate the appropriate spot give the current iteration and
-             * rank within the MPI processes */
-            seek_position = (j*iter_jump)+(mynod*opt_block);
-
-            /* discover the start time */
-       MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD);
-       stim = MPI_Wtime();
-
-            /* read in the file data */
-            if (!opt_correct){
-                    err = MPI_File_read_at(fh, seek_position, buf, nchars, MPI_CHAR, &status);
-            }
-            else{
-                    err = MPI_File_read_at(fh, seek_position, buf2, nchars, MPI_CHAR, &status);
-            }
-            myerrno = errno;
-
-            /* discover the end time */
-       etim = MPI_Wtime();
-       read_tim += (etim - stim);
-
-       if (err < 0) fprintf(stderr, "node %d, read error, loc = %Ld: %s\n",
-                    mynod, mynod*opt_block, strerror(myerrno));
-
-            /* if the user wanted to check correctness, compare the write
-             * buffer to the read buffer */
-            if (opt_correct && memcmp(buf, buf2, opt_block)) {
-                    fprintf(stderr, "node %d, correctness test failed\n", mynod);
-                    my_correct = 0;
-                    MPI_Allreduce(&my_correct, &correct, 1, MPI_INT, MPI_MIN,
-                            MPI_COMM_WORLD);
-            }
-
-            /* we are done with this read iteration */
-    }
-
-    /* close the file */
-    err = MPI_File_close(&fh);
-    if(err){
-            fprintf(stderr, "node %d, close error after write\n", mynod);
-    }
-
-    /* compute the read and write times */
-    MPI_Allreduce(&read_tim, &max_read_tim, 1, MPI_DOUBLE, MPI_MAX,
-            MPI_COMM_WORLD);
-    MPI_Allreduce(&read_tim, &min_read_tim, 1, MPI_DOUBLE, MPI_MIN,
-            MPI_COMM_WORLD);
-    MPI_Allreduce(&read_tim, &ave_read_tim, 1, MPI_DOUBLE, MPI_SUM,
-            MPI_COMM_WORLD);
-
-    /* calculate the average from the sum */
-    ave_read_tim = ave_read_tim / nprocs;
-
-    MPI_Allreduce(&write_tim, &max_write_tim, 1, MPI_DOUBLE, MPI_MAX,
-            MPI_COMM_WORLD);
-    MPI_Allreduce(&write_tim, &min_write_tim, 1, MPI_DOUBLE, MPI_MIN,
-            MPI_COMM_WORLD);
-    MPI_Allreduce(&write_tim, &ave_write_tim, 1, MPI_DOUBLE, MPI_SUM,
-            MPI_COMM_WORLD);
-
-    /* calculate the average from the sum */
-    ave_write_tim = ave_write_tim / nprocs;
-
-    /* print out the results on one node */
-    if (mynod == 0) {
-       read_bw = ((int64_t)(opt_block*nprocs*opt_iter))/(max_read_tim*1000000.0);
-       write_bw = ((int64_t)(opt_block*nprocs*opt_iter))/(max_write_tim*1000000.0);
-
-                    printf("nr_procs = %d, nr_iter = %d, blk_sz = %ld\n", nprocs,
-            opt_iter, (long)opt_block);
-
-                    printf("# total_size = %ld\n", (long)(opt_block*nprocs*opt_iter));
-
-                    printf("# Write:  min_time = %f, max_time = %f, mean_time = %f\n",
-                            min_write_tim, max_write_tim, ave_write_tim);
-                    printf("# Read:  min_time = %f, max_time = %f, mean_time = %f\n",
-                            min_read_tim, max_read_tim, ave_read_tim);
-
-       printf("Write bandwidth = %f Mbytes/sec\n", write_bw);
-       printf("Read bandwidth = %f Mbytes/sec\n", read_bw);
-
-            if (opt_correct) {
-                    printf("Correctness test %s.\n", correct ? "passed" : "failed");
-            }
-    }
-
-
-die_jar_jar_die:
-
-#if H5_HAVE_SETENV
-/* no setenv or unsetenv */
-    /* clear the environment variable if it was set earlier */
-    if  (opt_pvfstab_set){
-            unsetenv("PVFSTAB_FILE");
-    }
-#endif
-
-    free(tmp);
-    if (opt_correct) free(tmp2);
-    MPI_Finalize();
-    return(0);
-}
-
-static int
-parse_args(int argc, char **argv)
-{
-    int c;
-
-    while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "s:b:i:f:p:c")) != EOF) {
-        switch (c) {
-            case 's': /* stripe */
-                opt_stripe = atoi(optarg);
-                break;
-            case 'b': /* block size */
-                opt_block = atoi(optarg);
-                break;
-            case 'i': /* iterations */
-                opt_iter = atoi(optarg);
-                break;
-            case 'f': /* filename */
-                strncpy(opt_file, optarg, 255);
-                break;
-            case 'p': /* pvfstab file */
-                strncpy(opt_pvfstab, optarg, 255);
-                opt_pvfstab_set = 1;
-                break;
-            case 'c': /* correctness */
-                opt_correct = 1;
-                break;
-            case '?': /* unknown */
-            default:
-                break;
-        }
-    }
-    return(0);
-}
-
-/*
- * Local variables:
- *  c-indent-level: 3
- *  c-basic-offset: 3
- *  tab-width: 3
- * End:
- */
-
-#else /* H5_HAVE_PARALLEL */
-/* dummy program since H5_HAVE_PARALLEL is not configured in */
-int
-main(int UNUSED argc, char UNUSED **argv)
-{
-    printf("No parallel performance because parallel is not configured in\n");
-    return(0);
-}
-#endif /* H5_HAVE_PARALLEL */
-