General Q: How many instances would work perfectly on our machine?

Hello,

I wonder how many instances would work without any problems on our new machine, as I want to run a code over the weekend. Kindly note that I am working with version 2013a.

PC specifications:

Model: Dell Precision T5600 with Windows 7 Professional 64 bits

Processor: Intel Xeon CPU E5-2609 0 @ 2.40GHz 2.40 GHz

Ram: 64 GB

Please note also that I am running one instance currently and the process is preserving ~560 MB of memory, but it can go a little bit more.

Thanks in advance,

AliND

[Sean de Wolski]

How many cores? This could be your answer as long as you don't exceed the amount of RAM necessary.

[Jonathan Sullivan]

I'll generally run up to 3 instances of MATLAB on a quad core machine. Having one fewer instance of MATLAB than cores allows me to use the machine while things are running.

[AND]

Many thanks- According to Intel, it has 4 cores. So I assume running 3 simultaneously should be okay.

http://ark.intel.com/products/64588/

Thanks again & all best// AliND