# Use of Paraview with CONVERGE CFD
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/use-of-paraview-with-converge-cfd/462
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [August 22, 2018, 1:18pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/use-of-paraview-with-converge-cfd/462 "2018-08-22T13:18:05Z")
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### Author:  [@Dec](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Dec)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2018, 1:18pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/use-of-paraview-with-converge-cfd/462/1 "2018-08-22T13:18:05Z")
Hi,
Looking to get any user experience from people who use/have used Paraview with Converge CFD. I am in a small company that uses Converge and currently weighing up switching to Paraview for all post-processing. We adopt python rather than Matlab so I think Paraview will fit in very well with the workflow. We use a small 48core HPC to run the simulations and to date use local machines for all post-processing, but I have noticed the NVIDIA IndeX for Paraview that I understand helps with running on a local machine rather than using any cores on the cluster?
Any information/experience from the group would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks,
Dec.
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### Author:  [@utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/utkarsh.ayachit)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2018, 2:37pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/use-of-paraview-with-converge-cfd/462/2 "2018-08-22T14:37:00Z")
For using NVIDIA IndeX on clusters for commercial purposes, you will need to get a license from NVIDIA (more details [here](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/index-paraview-plugin/)).
However, note that IndeX is not a requirement for using ParaView. You can use ParaVIew on clusters using MPI for distributed computing. For such use-cases, one typically builds ParaView (w/o Qt, if that’s easier) on the HPC cluster using the MPI implementation deployed on the system. A matching version of the ParaView client downloaded from [paraview.org](http://paraview.org) can then be used on your desktop machine to connect to the HPC cluster.
ParaView includes support for distributed volume rendering out of the box as well.
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### Author:  [@Dec](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Dec)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/use-of-paraview-with-converge-cfd/462/3 "2018-08-22T16:18:37Z")
Thank you for the reply Utkarsh, I think for now I will be concentrating on conducting any post-processing on local PCs, simply due to having limited CPUs on cluster. However I will certainly look to utilize the cluster in the future.