# Paraview parallel

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-parallel/320
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [July 16, 2018, 5:14pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-parallel/320 "2018-07-16T17:14:54Z")
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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: [July 18, 2018, 10:04am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-parallel/320/4 "2018-07-18T10:04:45Z")

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The simplest way is to enable the “Auto MPI” mode.

- Open ParaView
- Edit -\> Settings
- Enabled advanced options (the cogwheel up right)
- Scroll down (or search for) “MultiCore Support”
- Enable AutoMPI and set the number of of cores
- Ok, restart paraview
- you are now in parallel locally.

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