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

[Cory Quammen]

The Linux binary does indeed include a self-contained MPI implementation
with mpiexec.

Cory

On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 7:52 AM, David Brant <brantosaurus at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> ------------------------------
> *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>
> msdn.microsoft.com
> 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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