Hi Mina - The part that takes long is running bedpost. If you run trac-all with the -jobs flag, it'll write out a text file with command lines that can be run in parallel.
https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki//trac-all#Parallelprocessing

I do have long-term plans for not using bedpost, but that's not going to be until the next version release.

Hope this helps,
a.y

From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu [freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu] on behalf of Mina Fakhry [dr.minafakhry@live.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2017 6:29 AM
To: freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Subject: [Freesurfer] TRACULA trac-all speed

I am currently using the last stable version freesurfer 6.0

I gave TRACULA a try on one subject and it took more that 2.5 days to finish the steps, with PC specs:

- Processor core i7 4 GHz

- VGA Nvidia GTX 980 with 1500 CUDA cores

- 16 GB RAM


I tried to speed it up (trac-all command) using openmp or use-gpu, but non of them worked.


Is there any way to speed the TRACULA processing??