Hi Chunchun,
we have been buying opterons and running the 64 bit version of FreeSurfer, but in general, here's out advice:
(1) Most important is to get something with at least 4GB RAM (2) Next make sure to buy enough disk space for your data and make sure to think about how you will handle backup (3) Otherwise, the more you can get on your budget the better. 64-bit dual is better than 32-bit single CPUs. Faster is better.
People around here are still running Freesurfer fairly comfortably on 5 year old dual P3s as long as they have the memory.
cheers, Bruce
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Chunchun Ni wrote:
Hi, We plan to buy Linux machine for freesurfer and other brain image processing. Any recommendation and related links?
Thanks Chunchun
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