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Dear Jack, I would definitely add that besides preventing errors, recompiling could also be worthwhile for enormeous processing speed gains, up to a factor 2 to our experience. That is, when you take into account specific processor flags to use certain benefits to the fullest. You could link the following benchmarking site (it links to other SPM binary tweaking pages): http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/cr1/spm99.html#spm2 Cheers, Bas -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: SPM (Statistical Parametric Mapping) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]Namens Daniel Kelly (AKA Jack) Verzonden: woensdag 2 februari 2005 10:06 Aan: [log in to unmask] Onderwerp: Re: [SPM] status of MatLab R14 and SPM? Dear SPM list, I've taken the liberty of starting a wiki page on this topic (Dr Ashburner, is that OK - I've ripped off most of your post) http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/SPM-Which_version_of_MatLab%3F Thanks, Jack Denis Brown wrote: > At 12:06 AM 2/02/2005, John Ashburner wrote: > >> > What is the latest on MatLab version 7 (aka R14) and SPM? There were >> > issues reported during 2004 that at the very least some >> re-compilation had >> > to be done to get SPM to work on M/L R14. Our software >> administrators are >> > now making stern noises that they will withdraw R13 so we'll have >> to go R14 >> > soon. >> >> Most things should work. As far as I am aware, recompilation only >> makes a >> difference when mex files crash out for some reason with an error. >> As long >> as there's no error, then there shouldn't be a problem. This only >> applies to >> Linux, where the mex files were compiled with a compiler that is not >> recommended for R14. There is a workaround though: > > > <snip interesting links, etc.> > > Many thanks John. From reading those links it seems that a lot of > problems may have been ironed out with the SP1 release of R14. Our > initial forays into SPM + R14 were with the non-SP1 version. One of the > links you provided suggested that Linux kernel 2.4 was okay and happily > that is the series I prefer to use right now. > > For what it may be worth, I'll report back to the list once we've > installed > R14 (SP1) and SPM. > > Kind regards, > Denis > >