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Specify a dedicated master partition for parallel iterator scheduling

## Topics

This keyword is related to the topics:

- concurrency_and_parallelism

## Specification

Alias: none

Argument(s): 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 iterator servers. This reduces the number of processors available to create servers by 1.