Will running climate model interfere with other processes? Can I run it together with SETI@Home or Folding projects?
Almost certainly there should be no interference with other applications on your computer – e.g. Word, Excel, Lotus, etc. In developing the package we have made every effort to fit in with other sorts of Windows-based software, such as Powerpoint, Word, Excel, and even games. Those of you who use other systems (such as reasonably tuned Linux-box) don’t need to worry at all. However, applications like SETI@Home and Folding use a similar strategy as we do – re-use as much of your spare/idle CPU time as possible. From this reason they would ‘compete’ for a scarce resource (your computer memory and processor), and this may result into poor performance of climate model and/or SETI@Home. We would advise not to run climate model together with any other distributed computing project.
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