# Parallelizing heat equation tutorial

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First of all, how many degrees of freedom are there in the total system?  
Secondly, what kind of solver are you using?

If you want to plot during simulation, I would suggest using @Stein’s pyvista4dolfinx: [Pyvista4dolfinx](https://fenicsproject.discourse.group/t/pyvista4dolfinx/17150)

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