# How to achieve parallel running on FEniCS like parallel command in Matlab?

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If you want to distribute one code (with one input) over multiple processors, you can use `mpirun -n 2 python3 program.py` to run the program on two processors.  
If you would like to run the same code, with different inputs, you can use [concurrent.futures](https://docs.python.org/3/library/concurrent.futures.html).

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