# Installation for parallel processing (Unix only)

On multicore computers, some of the functions in Bsoft can be compiled as threaded versions. Bsoft uses OpenMP for Linux and Mac OS X prior to 10.7 with the gcc compilers (version 4.2+), and Grand Central Dispatch for Mac OS X 10.7+ with the clang compilers. One requirement is the FFTW3 library (in stead of FFTW version 2.5).

Version 3.3.3 or later of FFTW3 can be obtained from http://www.fftw.org

The following links provide instructions for compiling parallel Bsoft:

OpenMP

Grand Central Dispatch