[Paraview] Help - What is the difference between the windows

[David Brant]

Many thanks for that Cory.

Another related question if I may.
Does the Linux version have self-contained MPI support or do I need to install that too?
It runs without complaining about it.
Dave
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From: Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com>
Sent: 30 June 2017 16:10
To: David Brant
Cc: paraview at paraview.org
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Help - What is the difference between the windows


1  Is the zip version essentially a standalone app that can be installed simply by extracting and a shortcut to the exe?

 Yes, the paraview.exe will work right out of the unzipped directory.

2  What is the difference between the MPI-windows and -windows versions of the app?

I appreciate MPI is for parallel working, but does one version (which?) come with self contained MPI support, while the other requires MPI support to be independently installed.

Neither version comes with self-contained MPI support. The MPI version on Windows requires that you install Microsoft's MPI, which you can obtain here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb524831(v=vs.85).aspx. The non-MPI version simply does not make use of MPI, even if you have Microsoft's MPI installed.

Microsoft MPI<https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb524831(v=vs.85).aspx>
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Microsoft MPI (MS-MPI) is a Microsoft implementation of the Message Passing Interface standard for developing and running parallel applications on the Windows ...



Cory


Thanks, Dave



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