It means CUDA-accelerated binaries/recons on the GPU are no longer supported after freesurfer 6.0. I will make that clarification in the wiki page. Sorry for the confusion.
Andrew
From: Frank Robert <frabob2015@gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 at 11:24 AM
To: "Hoopes, Andrew" <AHOOPES@mgh.harvard.edu>
Cc: FS Help <freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] whether freesurfer version 7 still support GPU
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Hello Dr. Hoopes
Does it mean that in Beta version 7, there is no GPU capability. But stable version 7 still support the existing GPU capacity.. Is it correct?
BR
Frank
On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 10:06 AM Hoopes, Andrew <AHOOPES@mgh.harvard.edu> wrote:
Hi Frank,
We still recommend this since freeview benefits from having a fast GPU.
best
Andrew
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Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 at 10:15 AM
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Subject: [Freesurfer] whether freesurfer version 7 still support GPU
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Hello Freesurfer team
I checked the freesurfer version 7.0. It says that " but for now you should know that some features are not present in v7 (QDEC, GPU-capability, and recon-all -make)."
But from the hardware setup, it still needs Graphics card: 3D graphics card with its own graphics memory & accelerated OpenGL drivers.
This makes me confused. Since version 7 does not support GPU anymore, why does it still need the Graphic card? I found GPU may be helpful for some abnormal brain such as large ventricles. It may speed the calculation time. I do not know my observation is correct or not.
Thanks
Frank
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