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Specify a peer partition for parallel evaluation scheduling

## Topics

This keyword is related to the topics:

- concurrency_and_parallelism

## Specification

Alias: none

Argument(s): none

Child Keywords:

| Required/Optional | Description of Group | Dakota Keyword | Dakota Keyword Description
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
| Required (Choose One) | Scheduling Mode (Group 1) | dynamic | Specify dynamic scheduling in a peer partition when Dakota is run in parallel.
static | Specify static scheduling in a peer partition when Dakota is run in parallel.

## Description

This option overrides the Dakota parallel automatic configuration, forcing the use of a peer partition. In a peer partition, all processors are available to be assigned to evaluation servers. The scheduling,`static` or `dynamic`, must also be specified.