diff --git a/docs/optimization/improve-parallelism/self.md b/docs/optimization/improve-parallelism/self.md index c5a6bd4fd2..9ad4a92f23 100644 --- a/docs/optimization/improve-parallelism/self.md +++ b/docs/optimization/improve-parallelism/self.md @@ -4,8 +4,10 @@ This guide teaches the different options for parallelism in Concrete and how to Modern CPUs have multiple cores to perform computation and utilizing multiple cores is a great way to boost performance. + There are two kinds of parallelism in Concrete: - Loop parallelism to make tensor operations parallel, achieved by using [OpenMP](https://www.openmp.org/) - Dataflow parallelism to make independent operations parallel, achieved by using [HPX](https://hpx.stellar-group.org/) + Loop parallelism is enabled by default, as it's supported on all platforms. Dataflow parallelism however is only supported on Linux, hence not enabled by default.