Dask not running in parallel

I was following along an example from Mr. Rocklin’s YouTube video on a Windows Server with 12 cores and 128GB RAM, but Dask never used all the processors. It only used one processors.

I thought it might have been completing too quickly, but even when I increased the size of the array, it only ever used one processor.

I was looking at this video: Getting Started with Dask: A Dask Setup Guide | Matt Rocklin - YouTube

and also the example here: Dask Arrays — Dask Examples documentation

@Seeker Welcome to Dask, and thanks for your question!

How are you diagnosing processor use?

but Dask never used all the processors. It only used one processors.

I think this is because the example creates only one worker. And, since we set processses=False, we also have only one process while uses one core. Ref: Scheduling — Dask documentation

Could you please try with the default values (as shown below) and let us know if you see all cores in use?

from dask.distributed import Client
client = Client()

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