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@@ -39,16 +39,15 @@ ml PrgEnv-gnu
 First it is necessary to book a node for interactive use:
 
 ```
-salloc -p shared --nodes=1 --cpus-per-task=32 -t 0:30:00 -A edu22.summer --reservation=<name-of-reservation>
+salloc -p shared --nodes=1 --tasks=1 --cpus-per-task=16 -t 0:30:00 -A edu22.summer --reservation=<name-of-reservation>
 ```
 
-You might also need to specify a **reservation** by adding the flag ``--reservation=<name-of-reservation>``.
 For the 2022 PDC Summer School the reservation name is ``summer-<date>``, where ``date`` is to be provided in the format ``YYYY-MM-DD``, e.g. ``summer-2022-08-16``.
 
 An environment variable specifying the number of threads should also be set:
 
 ```
-export OMP_NUM_THREADS=16
+export OMP_NUM_THREADS=$SLURM_CPUS_PER_TASK
 ```
 
 Then the ``srun`` command is used to launch an OpenMP application: