Some more questions concerning this issue:
1. Will more memory help the performance of Matlab?
2. Will each of the dual processors take a main thread if we run two Matlab
on the same Linux system?
Thanks,
Erik
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Erik Chang
Psychology Department-MS 25
Rice University
PO Box 1892
Houston, Texas 77251-1892 USA
TEL: 713-3482216
FAX: 713-3485221
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pieter Vandemaele" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 9:57 AM
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> "[log in to unmask]" wrote:
> >
> > Can anybody please help me with some SPM system requirments.
> >
> > 1. Has anybody tested RedHat 7.1 linux with SPM?
> No, we use FreeBSD
>
> > 2. Will a dual processor system increase the performance of SPM?
> No, Matlab does not take advantage of the presence of more than one
> processor.
> It works in only one main thread (there are other threads, but the
> calculations are done in
> only one thread). If you use a dual processor thread, you can see that
> the main thread
> will jump from one processor to the other, but this is because of the
> scheduler of the
> operating system.
>
> > 3. What graphics card is recommended?
> We use the Matrox G400, but any modern graphics card should work if it
> is
> supported by Linux.
>
> > 4. Does SPM require a card with 3D or OpenGL performance?
> Not specially
>
> > 5. Has anybody run SPM with a dual screen graphics card.
> We use dual head graphic cards without any problems
>
>
> Pieter Vandemaele
>
> >
> > Kind Regards
> >
> > Dragan Dimitrovici
>
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