Two or more brainstorm and MATLAB instances running in the same computer

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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