diff --git a/julia.be0 b/julia.be0
index 2b8b98c28..108be2aed 100755
--- a/julia.be0
+++ b/julia.be0
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ SRCURL[0]="https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/releases/download/v${PKGVERSION}/j
 ## Add URLs/pathes to patch files to the PATCHURL array.
 ## The sources will be patched in the order of the array.
 
-# PATCHURL+=()
+PATCHURL+=(/src/mariux/patches/julia-0001-Allow-OpenBLAS-NUM_THREADS-to-be-overwritten.patch)
+PATCHURL+=(/src/mariux/patches/julia-0002-Start-up-OpenBLAS-with-1-thread-per-default.patch)
 
 ###############################################################################
 ## Add filename patterns to the EXCLUDE array of files that should not
@@ -63,7 +64,8 @@ mee_build() {
     # own purpose.
     # julias Makefile wants prefix lower case
     #
-    start_cmd make ${BEE_MAKEFLAGS} prefix="${PREFIX}" MARCH=x86-64
+    start_cmd make ${BEE_MAKEFLAGS} prefix="${PREFIX}" MARCH=x86-64 \
+      OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS=80
 }
 
 mee_install() {