Re: [Freesurfer] Speeding Freesurfer

2014-12-04 Thread Z K
My impression is that CUDA drivers are not available for AMD FirePro graphics boards. Aren't they? Sorry, I dont know the answer to that question. In regard to the next release of freesurfer, my guestimate would be between 1-2 months. -Zeke On 12/03/2014 02:12 AM, Francesco Cardinale

Re: [Freesurfer] Speeding Freesurfer

2014-12-04 Thread Bennet Fauber
CUDA is specific to NVIDIA graphics devices. http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home_new.html On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Z K zkauf...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu wrote: My impression is that CUDA drivers are not available for AMD FirePro graphics boards. Aren't they? Sorry, I dont know the

Re: [Freesurfer] Speeding Freesurfer

2014-12-03 Thread Bruce Fischl
Hi Francesco we are hoping to have version 6 out in early 2015 cheers Bruce On Wed, 3 Dec 2014, Francesco Cardinale wrote: Zeke, Thank you for your prompt response. I've been using for a long time my own bash script that parallelizes the simultaneous computation of the hemisphere-specific

Re: [Freesurfer] Speeding Freesurfer

2014-12-02 Thread Z K
Francesco, There are ways to speed up single subject processing time by parrallelizing the parts of the recon-all stream that deal with the left and right hemisphere so they get processed simultaneously. This would require a custom script and thus is a bit more complicated than a single call

Re: [Freesurfer] Speeding Freesurfer

2014-12-02 Thread Francesco Cardinale
Zeke, Thank you for your prompt response. I've been using for a long time my own bash script that parallelizes the simultaneous computation of the hemisphere-specific steps. Moreover, I re-organized the pipeline for obtaining the pial reconstruction asap. I'm happy to know that next release of

[Freesurfer] Speeding Freesurfer

2014-11-27 Thread Francesco Cardinale
Dear Freesurfer experts, I've been using Freesurfer on Mac computers for some years with great satisfaction. I just bought a monster computer, a Mac Pro with 12-core Xeon E5, 64 Gb RAM, GPU AMD FirePro D700. This is, out of doubt, a marvellous machine to compute many subjects simultaneously,