Posted by
Michael Schell on
Sep 22, 2008; 6:18pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Advice-for-offline-image-analysis-computer-tp3695009p3695011.html
I echo the other comments about XP64 versus Vista64. We have an XP64
system with 10GB RAM, an it runs very fast with ImageJ64, Volocity64,
and Autoquant64. The extra RAM is mainly useful for huge data
stacks or deconvolution. Does anybody know if Microsoft will
continue to sell/support XP64? I think I read someplace that they
wanted everybody to migrate to Vista.
On Sep 22, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Justin Walker wrote:
> I'm running a dual-Xeon E5410 (That's 8 cores at 2.33GHz per core)
> 64-bit system with 8 GB of RAM under WinXP-x64 almost exclusively
> for image processing and video rendering. It really rips through
> things compared to our old single-core system. It only ran about
> $2200, too, so for your budget you could easily step up to 8x3GHz
> and 16GB RAM with room to spare. Definitely worth it. Since
> ImageJ can use all 8 threads and I have it set to use 6 GB of
> memory, it's extremely efficient.
> I highly recommend sticking with XP. The overhead for Vista is
> unnecessary for a processing rig. As for video, we went with a
> fairly middle of the road nVidia 8600GT, enough to support my dual-
> monitor setup, but not overkill. Since there are no real ways to
> use the massive parallel cell processors of the Graphics cards for
> this sort of calculations, there's no reason to go overboard on the
> GPU. If you were to write custom code for cell processing, then
> you'd want to build something with a bunch of high-end video cards
> in SLI/Crossfire.
>
> - Justin Walker
> University of Maryland
>
> Christophe Leterrier wrote:
>> Dear listers,
>>
>> I have to buy a new computer for our team that will be used as for
>> offline
>> image analysis. The software required (ImageJ, Metamorph, Matlab)
>> require to
>> build a Windows/Vista machine. The cost would be around $5,000 /
>> 5000€. The
>> job would be processing (a lot) and rendering. My questions are :
>> - Should I go for a "traditionnal" computer, I mean a 32-bits,
>> dual core, XP
>> computer with maxed RAM (I guess it is 3GB or so) ? Is it usefull
>> to go to
>> more fancy stuff like 64 bits, 4 or 8 core, 8 to 16GB RAM
>> machine ? Would
>> ImageJ really benefit from it on a Windows computer ? Related
>> question : if
>> I go 64bits, should I use Vista 64 or XP 64 (What is the best for
>> ImageJ and
>> Java) ?
>> - What about graphic cards and GPU ? What is the best choice ?
>> I've heard
>> about new strategies to speed up processing by making the GPU
>> churn data as
>> well as graphics, but I don't think it is really commercially
>> available now
>> or implemented yet in Java.
>>
>> Thanks for your advices !
>>
>> Christophe
>>
Michael J. Schell,
Assist. Professor
Dept. of Pharmacology
Uniformed Services University