.. _interface-asynchronous-evaluation_concurrency:

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evaluation_concurrency
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Determine how many concurrent evaluations Dakota will schedule



**Topics**


concurrency_and_parallelism


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**Specification**

- *Alias:* None

- *Arguments:* INTEGER

- *Default:* local: unlimited concurrency, hybrid: no concurrency


**Description**


When ``asynchronous`` execution is enabled, the default behavior is to
launch all available evaluations simultaneously. The ``evaluation_concurrency``
keyword can be used to limit the number of concurrent evaluations.