.. _interface-analysis_scheduling-master:

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master
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Specify a dedicated master partition for parallel analysis scheduling



**Topics**


concurrency_and_parallelism


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**Specification**

- *Alias:* None

- *Arguments:* None


**Description**


This option overrides the Dakota parallel automatic configuration, forcing
the use of a dedicated master partition. In a dedicated master partition,
one processor (the "master") dynamically schedules work on the analysis
servers. This reduces the number of processors available to create servers
by 1.