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Specify the number of evaluation servers when Dakota is run in parallel



**Topics**


concurrency_and_parallelism


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**Specification**

- *Alias:* None

- *Arguments:* INTEGER

- *Default:* automatic (see discussion)


**Description**


The optional ``evaluation_servers`` specification supports user
override of the automatic parallel configuration for the number of
evaluation servers. That is, if the automatic configuration is
undesirable for some reason, the user can enforce a desired number of
partitions at the evaluation parallelism level. Refer to
ParallelLibrary and the :ref:`Parallel Computing section <parallel>`
for additional information.


