diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index 4083cee..6b8f9a6 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -37,23 +37,6 @@ build_script:
 # add both OpenBLAS dynamic (libopenblas.dll) and static (libopenblas.a) library files dir to path
 - set path=%path%;C:\software\OpenBLAS-v0.2.14-Win64-int32\bin;C:\software\OpenBLAS-v0.2.14-Win64-int32\lib;C:\software\OpenBLAS-v0.2.14-Win64-int32\include
 
-# download and unpack MSMPI library (Windows version of OpenMPI)
-# follow http://www.symscape.com/configure-msmpi-for-mingw-w64#comment-1824
-- mkdir C:\software\msmpi && cd C:\software\msmpi
-- ps: wget http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/1/3/A1397A8C-4751-433C-8330-F738C3BE2187/mpi_x64.Msi -OutFile mpi_x64.Msi
-- 7z x mpi_x64.Msi
-- gendef msmpi64.dll
-- dlltool -d msmpi64.def -l libmsmpi64.a -D msmpi64.dll
-- del mpi.f90
-- ps: wget http://web-docs.gsi.de/~milias/msmpi/mpi.F90 -OutFile mpi.F90
-- gfortran  -c  -D_WIN64  -D INT_PTR_KIND()=8 -fno-range-check   mpi.F90
-- del mpif.h
-- ps: wget http://web-docs.gsi.de/~milias/msmpi/mpif.h -OutFile mpif.h
-- dir
-
-# add msmpi to path
-- set path=%path%;C:\software\msmpi
-
 # download and upgrade pip
 - ps: wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -OutFile get-pip.py
 - python get-pip.py
diff --git a/test/fc_mpi/cmake/autocmake.cfg b/test/fc_mpi/cmake/autocmake.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index 97d8bc6..0000000
--- a/test/fc_mpi/cmake/autocmake.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-[project]
-name: example
-min_cmake_version: 2.8
-
-[fc]
-source: ../../../modules/fc.cmake
-
-[mpi]
-source: ../../../modules/mpi.cmake
-
-[default_build_paths]
-source: ../../../modules/default_build_paths.cmake
-
-[src]
-source: ../../../modules/src.cmake
-
-[definitions]
-source: ../../../modules/definitions.cmake
diff --git a/test/fc_mpi/src/CMakeLists.txt b/test/fc_mpi/src/CMakeLists.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 1d44328..0000000
--- a/test/fc_mpi/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-if(MPI_FOUND)
-    add_executable(example example.F90)
-    target_link_libraries(example ${MPI_LIBRARIES})
-else()
-    message(FATAL_ERROR "MPI not found")
-endif()
diff --git a/test/fc_mpi/src/example.F90 b/test/fc_mpi/src/example.F90
deleted file mode 100644
index 2eee4f2..0000000
--- a/test/fc_mpi/src/example.F90
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-program example
-
-   implicit none
-#include "mpif.h"
-
-   integer :: ierr, rank, num_ranks
-   logical :: test_ok
-
-   call MPI_Init(ierr)
-
-   call MPI_COMM_RANK(MPI_COMM_WORLD, rank, ierr)
-   call MPI_COMM_SIZE(MPI_COMM_WORLD, num_ranks, ierr)
-
-   test_ok = (num_ranks == 2 .and. (rank == 0 .or. rank == 1))
-
-   if (test_ok) then
-      if (rank == 0) print *, 'PASSED'
-   else
-      stop "FAILED"
-   endif
-
-   call MPI_Finalize(ierr)
-
-end program
diff --git a/test/test.py b/test/test.py
index 88af8b5..bde2958 100644
--- a/test/test.py
+++ b/test/test.py
@@ -113,15 +113,6 @@ def test_fc_int64():
     configure_build_and_exe('fc_int64', 'python setup --fc=gfortran --int64')
 
 
-@skip_on_windows
-def test_fc_mpi():
-    if sys.platform == 'win32':
-        setup_line = 'python setup --mpi --fc=gfortran --extra-fc-flags="-D_WIN64 -D INT_PTR_KIND()=8 -fno-range-check"'
-    else:
-        setup_line = 'python setup --mpi --fc=mpif90'
-    configure_build_and_exe('fc_mpi', setup_line, 'mpiexec -np 2')
-
-
 @skip_on_osx
 def test_fc_omp():
     os.environ['OMP_NUM_THREADS'] = '2'