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Hello Freesurfer Developers,
the old Linux-Computer Freesurfer was running on broke down and now we need to buy a new one. The recommondations in the systems requirements were very helpful, but they seem a bit outdated. For Graphics Card it says:
* /ATI (AMD) vs nVidia: We still spec nVidia because we don't have problems with its OpenGL-X driver under linux. Perhaps ATI has finally supplied one that works, but this hasn't been attempted in a couple years. ATI cards on the Mac work fine with freesurfer though. /// * /GPU: We no longer support [further] CUDA or GPU development because of lack of resources and difficulty, in preference to using OpenMP, which uses CPU cores. We will continue to support the existing GPU CUDA code that runs on recon-all with the -use-gpu switch. By support, keeping it running with each new nvidia cuda driver release as best as we can./
Is this still accurate? The Tech support at my university would order an AMD graphics card, since the issue with the drivers for Linux seems to be fixed. Does anyone has any current experiences with AMD vs. nVidia graphics cards?
Thanks in advance and best wishes, Falko
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FreeSurfer does not require any special graphics card, you can chose whatever card you like (as long as it works under Linux, but I haven't come across one that did not in the last 10 years or so).
*If* you want to run stuff on the GPU (the current FreeSurfer version does not support it afaik, but maybe you have other use cases), an Nvidia card may be better because from what I am seeing, CUDA seems to be more widely used than OpenCL. If you do not care about CUDA or have never used it, chances are high you can completely ignore this.
Tim
-- Dr. Tim Schäfer Postdoc Computational Neuroimaging Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
On 09/23/2021 8:24 AM Falko Mecklenbrauck f_meck01@uni-muenster.de wrote:
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Hello Freesurfer Developers,
the old Linux-Computer Freesurfer was running on broke down and now we need to buy a new one. The recommondations in the systems requirements were very helpful, but they seem a bit outdated. For Graphics Card it says:
- /ATI (AMD) vs nVidia: We still spec nVidia because we don't have problems with its OpenGL-X driver under linux. Perhaps ATI has finally supplied one that works, but this hasn't been attempted in a couple years. ATI cards on the Mac work fine with freesurfer though. ///
- /GPU: We no longer support [further] CUDA or GPU development because of lack of resources and difficulty, in preference to using OpenMP, which uses CPU cores. We will continue to support the existing GPU CUDA code that runs on recon-all with the -use-gpu switch. By support, keeping it running with each new nvidia cuda driver release as best as we can./
Is this still accurate? The Tech support at my university would order an AMD graphics card, since the issue with the drivers for Linux seems to be fixed. Does anyone has any current experiences with AMD vs. nVidia graphics cards?
Thanks in advance and best wishes, Falko
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It is quite likely that in the next year or two we will be releasing versions that have GPU support, so getting a card with a reasonable amount of RAM would be a good idea
Cheers Bruce
-----Original Message----- From: freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu freesurfer-bounces@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu On Behalf Of Tim Schäfer Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2021 2:45 AM To: Freesurfer support list freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: Re: [Freesurfer] Best graphics card for freesurfer?
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FreeSurfer does not require any special graphics card, you can chose whatever card you like (as long as it works under Linux, but I haven't come across one that did not in the last 10 years or so).
*If* you want to run stuff on the GPU (the current FreeSurfer version does not support it afaik, but maybe you have other use cases), an Nvidia card may be better because from what I am seeing, CUDA seems to be more widely used than OpenCL. If you do not care about CUDA or have never used it, chances are high you can completely ignore this.
Tim
-- Dr. Tim Schäfer Postdoc Computational Neuroimaging Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
On 09/23/2021 8:24 AM Falko Mecklenbrauck f_meck01@uni-muenster.de wrote:
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Hello Freesurfer Developers,
the old Linux-Computer Freesurfer was running on broke down and now we need to buy a new one. The recommondations in the systems requirements were very helpful, but they seem a bit outdated. For Graphics Card it says:
- /ATI (AMD) vs nVidia: We still spec nVidia because we don't have problems with its OpenGL-X driver under linux. Perhaps ATI has finally supplied one that works, but this hasn't been attempted in a couple years. ATI cards on the Mac work fine with freesurfer though. ///
- /GPU: We no longer support [further] CUDA or GPU development because of lack of resources and difficulty, in preference to using OpenMP, which uses CPU cores. We will continue to support the existing GPU CUDA code that runs on recon-all with the -use-gpu switch. By support, keeping it running with each new nvidia cuda driver release as best as we can./
Is this still accurate? The Tech support at my university would order an AMD graphics card, since the issue with the drivers for Linux seems to be fixed. Does anyone has any current experiences with AMD vs. nVidia graphics cards?
Thanks in advance and best wishes, Falko
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