Hi all,
I am looking for current recommendations for specs for a desktop Linux box for running Freesurfer (and friends), both recon-all, and the interactive graphical tools.
I have read the generic recommendations here:
http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/SystemRequirements (also here as surfer is down)... http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Q113A-rSkxEJ:surfer.nmr...
Feel free to point me to existing email threads if I've missed the place where this was definitively covered!
I'd like any more detailed input such as:
CPU: Intel vs AMD, and the extent to which more cores increase performance.
Video card: -- AMD/ATI or nVidia? My model is that nVidia has had better support for OpenGL/Mesa -- still true? -- if nVidia, then how many CUDA cores and RAM is beneficial for FS's CUDA code?
Hard drive: Does SSD make much difference while running recon-all?
Linux distro: Which are favored for use with Freesurfer, FSL, etc?
Thanks!
-- Graham