Hello Francois/Raymundo/brainstormers, I just want to know how safe is to open two or more Brainstorm and MATLAB instances with different databases in the same computer (I've space in local disk and enough RAM 64 GB). Like for example: Instance 1: BST/database1, 2: BST/database 2, etc.
Thanks,
Jorge.
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Hello Jorge,
This is not recommended. While, two instances of Matlab, each running Brainstorm, and each Brainstorm using a different Protocol sounds kind of safe, it could lead to unexpected behaviour, and files / database corruption. This is because the current database system was not design to handle concurrent access. We are currently in our way to update to SQLite-based database system that will address this issue.
Moreover, computation times may not be greatly improved as many processes already use multiple cores.
A more extended answer here:
Best,
Raymundo
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hi @Palaccivatbfc , adding to @Raymundo.Cassani answer,
this topic is also discussed on GitHub:
You have to be careful on processing the data if you are using this option:
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Hello Raymundo.
Thank you for the comprehensive and thorough guide.
Best.
Jorge
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Hello tmedani,
Thank you very much for the reference.
Jorge.
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