- profiler generates one report per MPI rank
- estimates the thread imbalance per rank
- generates a json file with profiling stats for each rank
- works with/without MPI
- works with/without TBB

Conflicts:
	miniapp/miniapp.cpp

- move definition of `global_policy` to header file
  src/communication/global_policy.hpp
- the `#ifdef WITH_MPI` guards go there so that
    - they don't pollute user code
    - they are available throughout the application
- small cleanup of a couple of style points in the mpi code

* Make global_policy methods static
* Move global_policy init/finalize into static methods
* Make miniapp use only global_policy methods for
  setup, rank, etc.

Feature/spike handling

* Add WITH_MPI CMake option to enable MPI code in application
* Use find_package(MPI) and set up flags, etc. for MPI
* Extra defines to disable the inclusion of C++ MPI headers for
  MPICH and OpenMPI.
* Fix signed/unsigned compare warning in algorithms.hpp

Added MPI support to the miniapp
- added ring model and all-to-all model
- started refactoring general model setup steps into a model class in
  miniapp
- optional -DWITH_MPI to turn on MPI support

Low-level algorithms for manipulating cell trees.

Feature/optional review

At this low level a cell tree is just a sequence of parent indices,
where each parent index is the parent of the current index in the
sequence. There four basic algorithms:

1. child_count(parent_index):
   Computes the number of children for each node in parent_index
   	Time: O(N), Space: O(1)
2. branches(parent_index):
   Returns a set of the branching nodes in parent_index, last branch
   index equals the parent_index's size.
	 Time: O(N), Space: O(N)
3. expand_branches(branch_index):
   Takes a branch_index (result from branches()) and expands it at the
   size of the original tree with all the nodes inside a branch having
   the same number.
         Time: O(parent_index), Space: O(1)
4. make_parent_index(parent_index, branch_index):
   Return a compacted tree (single node per branch) from parent_index
   and its corresponding branch_index.
	Time: O(N), Space: O(N)

There is another utility function as well:

find_branch(branch_index, nid):
    Returns the id of the branch where nid belongs to.
	Time: O(N), Space: O(1)

merge to my fork

Remove redundant #ifdef'ed code

Address clang compiler warnings

* Add file cmake/CompilerOptions.cmake for setting up compiler
  specific options
* Disable 'missing-braces' warning on Clang
* Avoid defect in g++ 4.9.2 standard library that omits move
  constructor for `stdd::ifstream`
* Remove signed/unsigned warning in test_optional.cpp

Clang (by default) objects to the omission of parentheses in
expressios such as a && b || c, and also to brace elision
in aggregate initialisation. The latter complicates initialisation
of e.g. std::array. GCC has not turned this warning on for
that reason, and there is an open issue for this for clang:
https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=21629

* Add parentheses to resolve logical parentheses warning
* Suppress missing-braces diagnostic in test_optional.cpp

Use optional type for event_queue

* Use `#pragma once` instead of install guards
* Use `using` instead of `typedef`

* Move optionalm headers into src/util
* Change namespace for optional classes to nest::mc::util
* Include unit tests for optional and uninitialized classes
* Simplify (dedoxygenate) comments in uninitialized.hpp

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