Hugin support for using GPUs is marked "experimental". What does Hugin
use a GPU for, anyway?
On 03/13/2014 12:18 AM, RizThon wrote:
I don't know what Hugin uses, but for image/video processing, GPUs are
way faster than CPUs. So if you have an app that can make use of the
power of the GPU, you may want to consider buying a better graphic card
(or even cards) rather than paying for a better processor.
That's why people used to link several PS3 together:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster
2014-03-13 13:29 GMT+08:00 Brandan:
I agree with David, get as much RAM as you can afford and your
system will allow. As for the number of cores, I'm of the opinion
that more cores are better, even if they're a little slower.
Honestly, when you consider the speeds modern processors run at and
the relatively small amount of work CPFind/Hugin/Enblend have to do,
the CPU frequency doesn't matter that much. It would matter if you
were doing calculations on humongous amounts of data that take hours
or days to complete. Other things to consider a CPU, beyond the
clock frequency, are: cache size (the more the better, the amount of
cache is one feature that distinguishes Intel's server chips from
their desktop chips), how much energy it consumes, whether
integrated graphics is important to you (I'm not a big gamer, so
having an external graphics card isn't very important to me), or
overclocking, support for virtualization (I like to experiment with
virtual machines, so this was important to me), and other nifty
feature in some Intel chips such as wireless display (but you have
to have an adapter for your tv), or vPro. Sorry, I probably just
made the process of buying a CPU a little more difficult for you,
didn't I?
Your OS will always be handling dozens of processes at a time, so
the more cores your system has, the better the OS can distribute
them (at least in theory :)
-Jeff
-------------------------------
I meant for my last message to be posted as a reply on the forum
instead of directly to you. I clicked the wrong button, I guess.
Would you mind posting it? It appears I don't have access to it anymore.
-Jeff
--
David W. Jones
[email protected]
wandering the landscape of god
http://dancingtreefrog.com
--
A list of frequently asked questions is available at:
http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hugin and other free panoramic software" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To view this discussion on the web visit
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/hugin-ptx/5321E68D.90907%40gmail.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
