Dear Matthew,
That depends on how many analysis is done and the size of the fMRI
dataset. We tried running 3 analysis on a fast dual-processor machine
recently and find that there is a bottleneck on NFS @1Gbps.
Thanks,
Cinly
Matthew Brett wrote:
>Hi,
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>>(1) A SATA HD for opterating system;
>>(2) A small but fast SCSI HD (~20-40G) for data processing;
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>Just to say, that my guess would be that disk speed would not be a
>large factor in SPM processing times, because even NFS over a 100Mb
>link only had a minor effect compared to local hard disk:
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>http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/Imaging/Common/spm_benchmarks.shtml
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>I would be very interested to hear of any other data that people have
>on this issue,
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>Best,
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>Matthew
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