Hi Anderson,<div><br></div><div>I don&#39;t remember if I showed you here in Sao Paulo our Freesurfer processing.</div><div><br></div><div>I think you could have a cluster or for better power consumption a Blade Server to run several recon-all at same time (don&#39;t forget to reserve at least 1GB Ram per core)</div>
<div><br></div><div>To visualize your data you can use a normal Linux workstation with Nvidia or ATI GPU.</div><div><br></div><div>As Bruce told you the GPU issue is something the FreeSurfer community want but it&#39;s not so easy to implement in this situation.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Pedro Paulo Jr.<br clear="all">-----------------------------------------------------------<br>Pedro Paulo de M. Oliveira Junior<br>Diretor de Operações<br>Netfilter &amp; SpeedComm Telecom<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 23:31, Anderson Winkler <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:relkniw@bol.com.br">relkniw@bol.com.br</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<p>Dear all,</p>
<p>We are considering to buy a blade system, and FreeSurfer would be one of the applications to run on it. We know that a 3D graphics card, with support for OpenGL and built-in memory+GPU, is recommended. What we are not sure is whether it is mandatory for all the FreeSurfer routines, of if that is necessary only to render data in the screen, in particular, with tksurfer.</p>

<p>If it is used only for display purposes, and not for real processing, then we may consider having graphics card only in a few separate nodes, that the users could access with an X-server (or maybe VNC with OpenGL support).</p>

<p>Does it all makes sense, or do all and every computer must have their own 3D card for everything?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Anderson</p>
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