From 592e92e1b5901cf8c568235d0b43cccb170e88c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Craig Warren Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:17:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Included mention of physical cores for OpenMP threading. --- docs/source/input.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/source/input.rst b/docs/source/input.rst index 1aeb11d1..3d6d613d 100644 --- a/docs/source/input.rst +++ b/docs/source/input.rst @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ where ``c1`` can be either y (yes) or n (no) which turns on or off the messages #num_threads: ----------------- -Allows you to control how many OpenMP threads (usually the number of CPU cores available) are used when running the model. The most computationally intensive parts of gprMax, which are the FDTD solver loops, have been parallelised using OpenMP (http://openmp.org) which supports multi-platform shared memory multiprocessing. The syntax of the command is: +Allows you to control how many OpenMP threads (usually the number of physical CPU cores available) are used when running the model. The most computationally intensive parts of gprMax, which are the FDTD solver loops, have been parallelised using OpenMP (http://openmp.org) which supports multi-platform shared memory multiprocessing. The syntax of the command is: .. code-block:: none