Blossom is compiled to run in a 32-bit Windows environment. Blossom installation takes approximately 6 Megabytes of disk space, including programs, documentation, help and support files, and sample datasets. During operation, Blossom creates a copy of any data file USEd in a unique Blossom file format. If there are missing values in data used, a duplicate temporary file may be created with appropriate records dropped for the analysis, so the space requirement is doubled. The maximum temporary MRBP space requirement is the size for the non-missing data.
Blossom allocates virtual memory space dynamically at runtime.
This means that the amount of memory required by Blossom depends on the program analyses being run and the size of the data and associated internal storage required for the analysis. Documentation to Windows virtual memory management should be consulted. Internally, Blossom has some limits on the amount of data it can support.