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Building the svFSIplus Program from Source
-The svFSIplus program can be compiled and linked from the GitHub source using a CMake build process. The build process creates a binary executable file named **svfsiplus**.
+The svFSIplus program can be compiled and linked from the GitHub source using a CMake build process. The build process creates a binary executable file named svfsiplus.
## Supported Platforms
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```
mpiexec -np 4 svfsiplus fluid3.xml
```
-In this case a directory named `4-procs` containing the simulation results output will be created. Results from different processors will be combined into a single file for a given time step.
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+In this case a directory named `4-procs` containing the simulation results output will be created. Results from different processors will be combined into a single file for a given time step.