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+    "### Setting number of threads used in running a STARDIS simulation"
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+    "When you run a STARDIS simulation, the yaml file determines how many threads are used. By default, it will only use 1 thread. The more threads you set a simulation to use, the more computing power the simulation will take advantage of for calculating line opacity and ray tracing steps (as both of these are parallelized in STARDIS). **Setting n_threads to 0 will make the simulation use all available threads.**"
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+    "Here is a what a yaml file that has the STARDIS simulation use 3 threads will look like\n",
+    "\n",
+    "``` yaml\n",
+    "stardis_config_version: 1.0\n",
+    "n_threads: 3 # <-----------  add your 'n_threads: <integer>' here\n",
+    "atom_data: kurucz_cd23_chianti_H_He.h5\n",
+    "model:\n",
+    "    ...\n",
+    "```\n"
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+    "One reason you may want to consider increasing threads used is when computing spectra with large numbers (i.e. 10,000 or more) of wavelength points."
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+<h1>Setting number of threads used in running a STARDIS simulation<a class="headerlink" href="#Setting-number-of-threads-used-in-running-a-STARDIS-simulation" title="Link to this heading"></a></h1>
+<p>When you run a STARDIS simulation, the yaml file determines how many threads are used. By default, it will only use 1 thread. The more threads you set a simulation to use, the more computing power the simulation will take advantage of for calculating line opacity and ray tracing steps (as both of these are parallelized in STARDIS). <strong>Setting n_threads to 0 will make the simulation use all available threads.</strong></p>
+<p>Here is a what a yaml file that has the STARDIS simulation use 3 threads will look like</p>
+<div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nt">stardis_config_version</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">1.0</span>
+<span class="nt">n_threads</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">3</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1"># &lt;-----------  add your &#39;n_threads: &lt;integer&gt;&#39; here</span>
+<span class="nt">atom_data</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">kurucz_cd23_chianti_H_He.h5</span>
+<span class="nt">model</span><span class="p">:</span>
+<span class="w">    </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">...</span>
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+<p>One reason you may want to consider increasing threads used is when computing spectra with large numbers (i.e. 10,000 or more) of wavelength points.</p>
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+   "source": [
+    "### Setting number of threads used in running a STARDIS simulation"
+   ]
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+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "When you run a STARDIS simulation, the yaml file determines how many threads are used. By default, it will only use 1 thread. The more threads you set a simulation to use, the more computing power the simulation will take advantage of for calculating line opacity and ray tracing steps (as both of these are parallelized in STARDIS). **Setting n_threads to 0 will make the simulation use all available threads.**"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "Here is a what a yaml file that has the STARDIS simulation use 3 threads will look like\n",
+    "\n",
+    "``` yaml\n",
+    "stardis_config_version: 1.0\n",
+    "n_threads: 3 # <-----------  add your 'n_threads: <integer>' here\n",
+    "atom_data: kurucz_cd23_chianti_H_He.h5\n",
+    "model:\n",
+    "    ...\n",
+    "```\n"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "One reason you may want to consider increasing threads used is when computing spectra with large numbers (i.e. 10,000 or more) of wavelength points."
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