> My impression is that CUDA drivers are not available for AMD FirePro > graphics boards. Aren't they?
Sorry, I dont know the answer to that question. In regard to the next release of freesurfer, my guestimate would be between 1-2 months. -Zeke On 12/03/2014 02:12 AM, Francesco Cardinale wrote: > Zeke, > Thank you for your prompt response. > I've been using for a long time my own bash script that parallelizes the > simultaneous computation of the hemisphere-specific steps. Moreover, I > re-organized the pipeline for obtaining the pial reconstruction asap. > I'm happy to know that next release of Freesurfer will support openmp > under MacOS X. Can you roughly estimate when it will be available? > I also tried with VMWare Fusion and a VM with CentOS 6.6, and it mapped > 12 virtual cores on the real cores. The time needed for CAREG was > reduced by about 2/3. > My impression is that CUDA drivers are not available for AMD FirePro > graphics boards. Aren't they? > Thanks again > Cico > > >> Francesco Cardinale >> >> Neurosurgeon >> "Claudio Munari" Centre for Epilepsy and Parkinson Surgery - Ospedale >> Niguarda "Ca' Granda" >> Piazza dell'Ospedale Maggiore, 3 - 20162 - Milano - Italia >> phone 0039 02 64442917 >> fax 0039 02 64442868 >> e-mail francesco.cardin...@ospedaleniguarda.it >> <mailto:francesco.cardin...@ospedaleniguarda.it> > > Il giorno 02/dic/2014, alle ore 15:59, Z K <zkauf...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > <mailto:zkauf...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu>> ha scritto: > >> Francesco, >> >> There are ways to speed up single subject processing time by >> parrallelizing the parts of the recon-all stream that deal with the left >> and right hemisphere so they get processed simultaneously. This would >> require a custom script and thus is a bit more complicated than a single >> call to recon-all. But I can provide you the skeleton of such a script >> if you like. >> >> We no longer support CUDA but it is included in the 5.3 release and >> people have reported success using it. The gpu can be used along with >> the openmp flag to further quicken processing time, but only on CentOS >> machines, as openmp is not supported on the Mac build of freesurfer >> v5.3. However, the next release of freesurfer WILL support openmp on the >> Mac side. >> >> -Zeke >> >> >> >> On 11/27/2014 04:31 AM, Francesco Cardinale wrote: >>> Dear Freesurfer experts, >>> I've been using Freesurfer on Mac computers for some years with great >>> satisfaction. I just bought a "monster computer", a Mac Pro with 12-core >>> Xeon E5, 64 Gb RAM, GPU AMD FirePro D700. This is, out of doubt, a >>> marvellous machine to compute many subjects simultaneously, but quite >>> often we need to run one single subject as fast as possible. What can I >>> do? OpenMP optimization is available only for CentOS, isn't it? What >>> about CentOS in a VM, will it be able to exploit multithreading, or is >>> it necessary to configure a multiboot machine with BootCamp? Any >>> suggestions to do that? Moreover, what about CUDA and GPU acceleration? >>> Is it available for FirePro graphic cards? Any other suggestions? >>> Anything really new in the field with the next version of Freesurfer? >>> Thanks a lot >>> Francesco Cardinale, MD >>> >>> Neurosurgeon >>> "Claudio Munari" Centre for Epilepsy and Parkinson Surgery - Ospedale >>> Niguarda "Ca' Granda" >>> Piazza dell'Ospedale Maggiore, 3 - 20162 - Milano - Italia >>> <x-apple-data-detectors://0/0> >>> phone 0039 02 64442917 <tel:0039%2002%2064442917> >>> fax 0039 02 64442868 <tel:0039%2002%2064442868> >>> e-mail francesco.cardin...@ospedaleniguarda.it >>> <mailto:francesco.cardin...@ospedaleniguarda.it> >>> <mailto:francesco.cardin...@ospedaleniguarda.it> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Freesurfer mailing list >>> Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> >>> https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freesurfer mailing list >> Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu <mailto:Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu> >> https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer >> >> >> The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom >> it is >> addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the >> e-mail >> contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance >> HelpLine at >> http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you >> in error >> but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender >> and properly >> dispose of the e-mail. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Freesurfer mailing list > Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer > _______________________________________________ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer
