diff --git a/build/README.md b/build/README.md
index c4b1aacde14cc277c81c2b5ce9396484f469d3ec..98d87f1b83d272364e6cc595857261bf7d1ac83a 100644
--- a/build/README.md
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@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ The original code produces output in the current working directory (the path whe
This section describes the use of the pre-existing programs, once the binaries have been properly built by a succesful run of `make` in the `src` folder.
+*NOTE:* This set of instructions applies to the serial code implementation only. Please, refer to the Release Notes of `NP_TMcode-M8.02` for more details on how to build and use a parallel implementation of the code.
+
### cluster
1. cd to the `build/cluster` folder.
@@ -96,8 +98,6 @@ This program checks for the consistency of transition matrix data files. It is e
where the arguments must be valid paths to binary transition matrix files saved in the legaci or the _HDF5_ format. Similarly to the previous case, the program writes a short log and returns a result value of 0, for success, or a positive number in case of inconsistency detection.
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# License
Copyright (C) 2024 INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari
diff --git a/containers/docker/README.md b/containers/docker/README.md
index 271a4a58f4ebcd60b89bfcb75ebf6155bee256f8..2f06074a496351d60129ae95d92923f471f622e1 100644
--- a/containers/docker/README.md
+++ b/containers/docker/README.md
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@ In order for the docker build to correctly set the context, so that it can acces
where `<image name>` is either `np-tmcode` or `np-tmcode-run`. One may also add the docker build option `-t tagname` to specify the `tagname` the built image should have in his/her registry.
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# License
Copyright (C) 2024 INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari
diff --git a/containers/singularity/README.md b/containers/singularity/README.md
index 12ab899c951971b9527388bfd18066841f167d75..49112adb2b4293ccf11a9c161b0afe7cc479f0c5 100644
--- a/containers/singularity/README.md
+++ b/containers/singularity/README.md
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@ or directly as
where `<full path to image name>` is the name of the sif image, including full or relative path to it, and `<np-tmcode command>` is one of the executables built in np-tmcode project, or the `pycompare.py` script used to compare results between the Fortran and C++ versions of the code. These executables, as well as the minimum runtime for them to execute correctly, are embedded in the image, and "see" the current directory the image is run in (which technically is automatically bind-mounted by singularity in the running image instance).
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# License
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diff --git a/doc/Release_Notes_M8.02.pdf b/doc/Release_Notes_M8.02.pdf
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diff --git a/doc/src/README.md b/doc/src/README.md
index ebcd796d9c5bd3bd089027e86ea374cf3920c870..6b6a3ba746644842b267c2bf5ba41dbfeba94909 100644
--- a/doc/src/README.md
+++ b/doc/src/README.md
@@ -14,8 +14,6 @@ Alternatively, you can use `make` from the project `src` folder (named `np_tmcod
*doxygen* will automatically build the HTML structure to cover all the documented source code and it will additionally provide the fundamental structure to prepare a LaTeX formatted version of the documents. These two outputs will be placed, respectively, under the folders `np_tmcode/doc/build/html` and `np_tmcode/doc/build/latex`.
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# License
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diff --git a/src/README.md b/src/README.md
index 5f501604424a585815bb9defe14f6f551b336266..33759fca0aefa882e140f33905ba1bd0e487e710 100644
--- a/src/README.md
+++ b/src/README.md
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ In all cases, build commands executed through `make` will output the object file
## *C++* code setup and execution (requires `g++` and GNU `make`)
+*NOTE:* This set of instructions is for serial code implementation only. Please, refer to the Release Notes of `NP_TMcode-M8.02` for more details on how to build and use a parallel implementation of the code.
+
1. Follow the *FORTRAN* code setup steps (these build the *C++* version too).
2. cd to the `build/sphere` folder.
3. Run `np_sphere`:
@@ -36,8 +38,6 @@ In all cases, build commands executed through `make` will output the object file
7. Check the consistency between the text files named `OCLU` and `c_OCLU`
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# License
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diff --git a/src/scripts/README.md b/src/scripts/README.md
index e8d2b1d19679a9e0f59c51b9262809c4a76f02d1..678a73f88168ae15514cc49121fb9ad384f083e9 100644
--- a/src/scripts/README.md
+++ b/src/scripts/README.md
@@ -35,8 +35,6 @@ Performance estimates can be obtained from the code logging system, assuming the
where `LOG_FILE` must be the name of a file containing the output that would normally go to terminal, `FILTER` must be the starting character sequence of the log line identifying the operation that should be taken into account, and `NUM_THREADS` is the number of processes that were used to perform the whole calculation loop. In case no filter is given, the script provides an estimate of the total amount of time spent in doing the calculation. This estimate, however, is known not to be reliable, because it ignores thread concurrency effects. A more accurate estimate of the total time spent in executing the code is always saved in a file named `c_timing.log`.
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# License
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diff --git a/test_data/README.md b/test_data/README.md
index 0a6fe1530fafe69dc511927836551fb4e21953ff..64a7dbf432210ace22caadd284d49946161dd299 100644
--- a/test_data/README.md
+++ b/test_data/README.md
@@ -60,8 +60,6 @@ were the different lines have the following roles:
4. a flag to set whether the intermediate data should be written to output files
5. an end-of-file code (generally 0)
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# License
Copyright (C) 2024 INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari