Number of Processors

#pragma MP taskloop maxcpus (number_of_processors) specifies the number of processors to be used for this loop, if possible.

The value of maxcpus must be a positive integer. If maxcpus equals 1, then the specified loop will be executed in serial. (Note that setting maxcpus to be 1 is equivalent to specifying the serial_loop pragma.) The smaller of the values of maxcpus or the interpreted value of the PARALLEL environment variable will be used. When the environment variable PARALLEL is not specified, it is interpreted as having the value 1.

If more than one maxcpus pragma is specified for a for loop, the last one specified will prevail.