[Paraview] Windows MPI capable Paraview binary install package question

[Cory Quammen]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Cone, Giovanni Antonio <conega at lanl.gov> wrote:
> Hello gang,
>
>   We're attempting to deploy the PV-5.4.1 Windows client via the SCCM
> utility on our systems here at LANL. Our SCCM team deployed the MPI-
> enabled version for user installation. Early testers are encountering
> an error message regarding a missing "msmpi.dll" library.  I'm
> suspecting that this particular build of PV is making use of
> Microsoft's MPI library/SDK?

Yes, that is correct.

> If so, I'll simply have our SCCM team deploy the non-MPI capable PV.
> Given that the common use case will be to use the PV GUI for a client-
> server connection to our HPC platforms, having a locally MPI-capable
> ParaView is likely overkill.

That will work. Otherwise they would need to deploy Microsoft's MPI
library as well.

Thanks,
Cory

> Polite feedback is appreciated :-)
>
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Cory Quammen
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