Climate models are most happy with 3 CPUs ...

CPU# use suggested

#1. For the Climate Simulation

#2. For the Climate Simulation

#3. For the Screensaver


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WARNING

THIS POLICY IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR 32 bit only SYSTEMS

SEPARATE BINARIES WILL NEED TO BE COMPLIED FOR THE CLIMATE SIMULATION MODELS, SO THAT THEY RUN EXCLUSIVELY ON 2 CPUs

It is doubtful that climatepredction.net will be able to get around to doing this until the Summer of 2014.

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The more CPUs you use, the more credit the BOINC system gives you.

So more CPUs is generally better, and the speed of the iterations may improve to a point of maybe 0.65s / Time Step

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Or two cpus and disable the screensaver.