Re: Advice for offline image analysis computer

Posted by Stephan Saalfeld on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Advice-for-offline-image-analysis-computer-tp3695009p3695013.html

Hi Christophe,

regardless what exactly you buy at the end, let it be a 64bit machine
with a lot of RAM.  Image processing tends to be expensive in terms of
memory and with a 32bit system you are limited to 4GB (in Java 2GB!).
Java can use more memory on a 64bit system and so ImageJ.  People here
in the lab are happy with Windows XP 64bit.  It seems to make it easy to
run both 64bit and 32bit applications at will.

Best regards,
Stephan



On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 10:34 +0200, 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