You can also parallelize by hemisphere by running a single job up to the tessellation stage (about 8 hours), then two jobs (one for each hemi). In serial these 2nd steps take about 8 hours, so you could in theory save 4 hours. doug
Bruce Fischl wrote:
Hi Spencer,
the easy answer is that we have a GPU implementation of several binaries that speed things up. The parallelization ranges from easy to impossible, but we are working on it. We don't have any generic (e.g. MPI) parallization at the moment, just some CUDA code.
cheers Bruce
On Mon, 3 Oct 2011, Spencer Boucher wrote:
New to Freesurfer here, but I was wondering if there is any viability to the idea of parallelizing freesurfer for running on multiple servers so as to reduce the time required to run recon-all on a single subject. Is there an aspect of the algorithm that makes this inherently infeasible?
Spencer
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