diff --git a/cmake/presets/hip.cmake b/cmake/presets/hip.cmake
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+# preset that will enable hcc plus gcc with support for MPI and OpenMP (on Linux boxes)
+
+set(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER "hcc" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
+set(CMAKE_C_COMPILER "gcc" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
+set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "-Wall -Wextra -g -O2 -DNDEBG" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
+set(MPI_CXX "hcc" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
+set(MPI_CXX_COMPILER "mpicxx" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
+unset(HAVE_OMP_H_INCLUDE CACHE)
+
+set(OpenMP_CXX "hcc" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
+set(OpenMP_CXX_FLAGS "-fopenmp" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
+set(OpenMP_CXX_LIB_NAMES "omp" CACHE STRING "" FORCE)
+set(OpenMP_omp_LIBRARY "libomp.so" CACHE PATH "" FORCE)
+