Selecting an Optimal Configuration for Distributed Analysis
For multiple DSO simulations on a single machine, the total memory needed is the sum of the memory used by each simulation. For example, assume you are running a parametric sweep and each run needs 3.5GB. Your computer has only 8GB of RAM but is a quad core system. To keep the computer from going heavily into swap, which is highly inefficient, you only want to assign this computer twice to the list of machines in the DSO setup. In addition, you would need to be sure that the amount of disk space available is also sufficient to fit all the requested simulations - typically hard drive space is not the limiting factor.