External Email - Use Caution I do not have experience with running on Google Cloud, but from what I know, the common way is to run FreeSurfer in parallel over many subjects instead of using openmp to speed up the process for a single subject.
So your desktop should run 4 subjects in parallel, and the cloud instance 16. Not that bad. Tim > On February 9, 2019 at 4:33 PM Yi-Fang Chuang <chua...@ym.edu.tw> wrote: > > > External Email - Use Caution > > Dear Freesurfer developers and users, > > Has anyone had experience running Freesurfer on Linux VM on Google Cloud > Platform? > I have a question about runtime of recon-all -all. > The specs of VM on GCP as follows, > Linux CentOS 6, 16 CPU(Intel(R) Xeon(R) @ 2.50GHz) with 60 G memory > I installed Freesurfer v 6.0.0 and run recon-all -all -parallel -openmp num > No matter what number I put (6,8,12,16 after openmp), the recon-all runtime > of a single subject ranges 6-7 hours. > It's just disappointing to compare to my own desktop. > My own Desktop is Mac Pro (3.7 GHz quad-core intel xeon E5, 16G memory). > The recon-all runtime (Freesurfer version 5.3.0, no parallel) for a single > subject is usually 7~8 hours. > Is this a reasonable runtime given the setting of VM? Only 1-2 hour > shorter than my Mac Pro?? > Or is there any configuration of VM I should pay attention to set up? > > Thanks, > Yi-Fang Chuang > ᐧ > ᐧ > _______________________________________________ > Freesurfer mailing list > Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer _______________________________________________ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer
