System Requirements

This section provides the operating system, PC, Visual C/C++ DLLs, and executable requirements for the MPI 04.04+.

Operating System

This MPI release is built to operate on Windows 7 (32/64-bit) and Windows 10 (32/64-bit). In 04.04.09, validation for Windows 10 (32/64-bit) was added.

PC Requirements

The PC must meet the minimum requirements specified by the Operating System manufacturer for CPU speed and RAM. Additionally, the PC will need 250 megabytes of available hard disk space.

Visual C/C++ DLLs

Visual Studio 2010

The MPI is built using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. This includes the MPI library, utilities, and example applications.

There are two installers included in each release one for 32-bit operating systems and one for 64-bit. Your directory structure will vary depending on which installer is used. Also note that some utilities are not available in 64-bit versions. In such cases, the 32-bit dlls are included and can be found in the win32 directory. For more information see the Important Things to Know section. Screenshots of the directory structure can be seen below.

64-bit MPI directory structure:	32-bit MPI directory structure: