thanks Chris - the issue is that we currently have both athlons and
P4's using the same NFS distribution of SPM. Sounds like we will need
to support separate distributions for each.
cheers
russ
On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 08:43 AM, Chris Rorden wrote:
> Russ-
>
> Short answer:
>
> Athlons do not show decreased performance for NaNs, so I do not expect
> these will be any faster than the DLLs for download at:
> http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/cr1/spm99.html
> Indeed, this is what we found when benchmarking normalization (though
> perhaps there is a difference for other stages).
>
>
> The Pentium3 version should work on a AthlonXP (as this has SSE), but
> the Pentium4 versions will not work with any Athlons (as it requires
> SSE2).
>
> My advice is-
> Athlon on Linux: use mexglx files that come with SPM99
> Athlon on Windows: use files from
> http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/cr1/spm99.html
>
> -chris
>
>
>
>
>
> At 06:53 04/03/2003 -0800, Russ Poldrack wrote:
>> Is it known whether this version will run on an Athlon machine,
>> and/or whether there will be a penalty compared to running the
>> standard version on such a machine?
>> Thanks
>> russ
>>
>> On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 06:26 AM, Chris Rorden wrote:
>>
>>> Satra-
>>>
>>> Tom Womack has compiled a set of the SPM mex files using the Intel
>>> compiler: in fact two sets, one for P3 and one for P4. Each set is a
>>> separate .tar file inside distrib.tar.gz; extract all the .mexglx
>>> files
>>> into (a copy of) your SPM idrectory and see what happens. There's
>>> also a
>>> makefile if you want to build it yourself, though it has some
>>> hard-wired
>>> paths you'll probably have to change.
>>>
>>> We have only tested this with normalization, but it may offer a real
>>> speedup for the later stages of SPM analysis, where NaN values are
>>> common.
>>>
>>> The Linux distribution is at:
>>> http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/cr1/distrib.tar.gz
>>>
>>> You can also get these files for Windows (DLL files instead of
>>> mexglx).
>>> http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/cr1/distrib.zip
>>>
>>> Note that the Linux version was compiled with Intel C Compiler
>>> 7.0.94,
>>> while the Windows version used version 6.
>>>
>>> -c
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>>> Department of Psychology
>>> University of Nottingham
>>> Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
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>> UCLA Department of Psychology
>> Franz Hall, Box 951563
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>>
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>
> __________________________________________
> Dr. Chris Rorden
> Department of Psychology
> University of Nottingham
> Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
> Tel: +44 [0]115-951-5294
> Fax: +44 [0]115-951-5324
> www.mricro.com
>
>
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