# Paraview Amazon Machine Image with MPI enabled
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-amazon-machine-image-with-mpi-enabled/5279
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [September 6, 2020, 10:08pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-amazon-machine-image-with-mpi-enabled/5279 "2020-09-06T22:08:07Z")
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### Author:  [@af11g11](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/af11g11)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2020, 10:08pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-amazon-machine-image-with-mpi-enabled/5279/1 "2020-09-06T22:08:07Z")
Hi,
I was wondering if an amazon machine image for paraview with MPI enabled exists anywhere for use?
I don’t seem to have had much luck finding one. As such I was wondering whether there is a reason none exist, is there a barrier preventing use? It seems to me like an AMI of a Paraview mpi build would be useful to have around. Please correct me if wrong or if I’ve overlooked anything.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2020, 9:13am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-amazon-machine-image-with-mpi-enabled/5279/2 "2020-09-07T09:13:41Z")
We have been using google cloud machine to build ParaView with success.
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-amazon-machine-image-with-mpi-enabled/5279/3 "2020-09-15T13:58:11Z")
@jourdain @Scott_Wittenburg do you have anything like this set up?
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### Author:  [@Scott\_Wittenburg](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Scott_Wittenburg)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-amazon-machine-image-with-mpi-enabled/5279/4 "2020-09-15T14:53:04Z")
No, we don’t have any of those to my knowledge, probably mostly because centos-like systems are usually more of a pain than ubuntu, and we don’t have a specific need driving us toward ami.
It should be possible though, and the Dockerfiles [1] we use to build the ubuntu ones could serve as a guide for someone who wants to try.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Scott
[1] [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild/-/tree/master/Scripts/docker/ubuntu](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild/-/tree/master/Scripts/docker/ubuntu)