diff --git a/.github/workflows/intelmpi.yml b/.github/workflows/intelmpi.yml
index 093560e7..0481195c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/intelmpi.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/intelmpi.yml
@@ -45,4 +45,4 @@ jobs:
 
     - name: run tests
       run: |
-        ./build/tests/tests_distributed
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+        mpirun -np 4 ./build/tests/tests_distributed
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