Hi,

I am about to order new hardware that will be used to process scans with freesurfer but also for processing with other packages. Has anyone had experience with the combination of Xeon quad-core processors, Ubuntu, and Freesurfer? And if yes are there any issues I should be aware of?

To my knowledge one Freesurfer process cannot run in parallel on multiple processors but I intend to process multiple scans simultaneously, hence the selection of a multi-core architecture. If somebody has some experience of the difference between 2.33 GHZ, 2.66 GHZ, and core-duo 3.00 GHZ I would also be interested to hear about it.

Thanks

Nic

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Nicolas Cherbuin

Centre for Mental Health Research
Australian National University
Canberra
ACT 0200