Dear Clairie,
I would say that memory is more important than the number of CPU cores, but
it depends on how much you are willing to wait for bedpostx results. On a
single core, a typical diffusion dataset will take more than 24 hours to
run, so parallelizing using multiple cores can really speed up things.
Regarding memory, I would suggest at least 4 GB (ideally 8 GB or more).
Cheers,
Stam
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From: "Claire Doody" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 1:43 PM
Subject: [FSL] System requirements to run bedpost
Hi
I'm new to FSL but have been asked by one of our medics to help specify a
system to allow him to do probabilistic tractograhy. I've searched the
archives on this site and clearly we should be looking at at least a dual
quad core machine ideally with 16 Gb RAM. I just wondered if anybody out
there, who has more experience of FSL, has bought a system lately and
whether they would be willing to share the spec. I'm guessing we are going
to have to spend in the order of £4K; is this correct?
Many thanks
Claire Doody
Medical Physics
Frenchay hospital
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