# ParaView MPI

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-mpi/8427
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [November 17, 2021, 5:15am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-mpi/8427 "2021-11-17T05:15:41Z")
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### Author: ![simplyvish](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@simplyvish](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/simplyvish)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2021, 5:15am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-mpi/8427/1 "2021-11-17T05:15:41Z")

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Hi, I’m new to ParaView and getting started with it. On the download page I see 2 links:

- ParaView-5.10.0-RC1-Windows-Python3.9-msvc2017-AMD64.zip
- ParaView-5.10.0-RC1-MPI-Windows-Python3.9-msvc2017-AMD64.zip

So, my question is that what is the difference in both version. What’s there in MPI and as a beginner to it with which version should I start.

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2021, 9:31am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-mpi/8427/2 "2021-11-17T09:31:40Z")

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> [@simplyvish](#):
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> So, my question is that what is the difference in both version.

MPI version allows users to perform distributed processing of the data, definitelly not recommended for a beginner. go with the non-mpi version.

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### Author: ![simplyvish](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@simplyvish](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/simplyvish)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2021, 11:52am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-mpi/8427/3 "2021-11-17T11:52:16Z")

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Thanks @mwestphal