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| = Report: Linux box for freesurfer, using Mint 15 (Ubuntu 13) = |
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| I recently built a new desktop machine with some concern for being able to run FreeSurfer well on it. It was not clear to me how various choices would turn out, so having now substantially completed the exercise I thought others might be interested. | I recently built a new desktop machine with some concern for being able to run FreeSurfer well on it. It was not clear to me how various choices would turn out. Having now substantially completed the exercise, I thought others might be interested. |
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| I suspected that a driving criterion would be the choice of graphics hardware brand: | xxxxxxxxx |
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| * Different brands of graphics hardware have different levels and reliability of drivers for OpenGL. My expectation from experience and recent reading was that nVidia would be a safest choice here, Intel less so, and AMD/ATI least. * Most motherboards come with built-in video. This is useful for testing and for many purposes, but a dedicated graphics card (with chip-vendor of choice) would be speedier. * Motherboard video functionality if often provided as part of the main CPU. * Since AMD CPUs would furnish ATI video capability, which I preferred to avoid, this drove a decision to use Intel CPU. Not mandatory, but avoids having any ATI drivers on the system. |
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| Bruce advised that in Intel line of CPUs, get Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge, for memory management that cooperates better with some FreeSurfer algorithms. | == Mint installation and configuration notes == == FreeSurfer installation and testing notes == == CUDA configuration notes == |
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| So: * Intel CPU. I chose i5 model that that happened to be a good price for the speed, and included Intel 4000 graphics (highest level available at this date). * Motherboard * nVidia add-on graphics card |
== Section for testing edit times == This test took: Timed out This test took: 42 sec This test took: 44 sec This test took: Timed out This test took: 50 sec This test took: 30-ish sec This test took: 46 sec This test took: 43 sec This test took: 45 sec This test took: 43 sec (Well, at least its consistently bad) This test took: 46 sec This test took: 49 sec Time.gov said 10:36:10 Last time edited said 10:36:16 |
Report: Linux box for FreeSurfer, using Mint 15 (Ubuntu 13)
Overview
I recently built a new desktop machine with some concern for being able to run FreeSurfer well on it. It was not clear to me how various choices would turn out. Having now substantially completed the exercise, I thought others might be interested.
Hardware
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Linux: Mint
Mint installation and configuration notes
FreeSurfer installation and testing notes
CUDA configuration notes
Section for testing edit times
This test took: Timed out
This test took: 42 sec
This test took: 44 sec
This test took: Timed out
This test took: 50 sec
This test took: 30-ish sec
This test took: 46 sec
This test took: 43 sec
This test took: 45 sec
This test took: 43 sec (Well, at least its consistently bad)
This test took: 46 sec
This test took: 49 sec
Time.gov said 10:36:10 Last time edited said 10:36:16