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<div>Hey Thomas,</div>
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<div>in addition to Michael’s remarks, I’d like to add that the graphics cards in your listing are quite dated, but anyway still expensive — I found them for around 1000EUR online.</div>
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<div>If you plan on running things like Multiview Deconvolution (http://fiji.sc/Multi-View_Deconvolution) on the GPU, you’d probably be better off getting a more recent card, like a GeForce Titan X with 12 GB RAM, instead. That card also costs around 1000EUR.</div>
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<div>The main difference (apart from the Titan X having a much more recent architecture) between the two is the double precision calculation speed: The consumer (read non-Quadro) cards are artificially capped at 1/8th of the single precision processing speed. For most image processing tasks however, double precision is not necessary, but more RAM on the GPU helps tremendously.</div>
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<div>Hope that helped :)</div>
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<div>cheers!</div>
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<div>ulrik</div>
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<div>Ulrik Günther, Dipl.-Phys.<br>PhD Student<br>MOSAIC Group & Tomancak Lab, Center of Systems Biology Dresden</div>
<div>Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics<br>Pfotenhauerstr. 108, D-01307 Dresden, Germany</div>
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<div>On Jan 26, 2016, at 6:04 PM, Thomas Pujol <thomas.pujol@crg.eu> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="font-family: -webkit-standard;">Hello dear light sheet enthousiaste.<div><br></div>
<div>An email to fish advices regarding computer configuration.</div>
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<div>I convince my boss that we need a super duper computer to process the spim data that we are producing and I want to know if the configuration advice by the open spim website is up to date(description below) or if I should/could aim for even bigger machine. Online, I also found the HP Z840 that can accomodate a tremendous amount of ram, any recommandation?</div>
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<div>We have to choose between buying a work station with massive a amount ram or our private node on the institute cluster, does anyone has advice or feedback on previous expererience ?</div>
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<div>thank you and may the light sheet be with you</div>
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<div>cheers</div>
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<div>thomas pujol</div>
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<div><pre style="font-size: 12.6667px; font-family: 'Courier New', monospace; border: 1px dashed rgb(47, 111, 171); line-height: 1.1em; padding: 15px 20px; border-top-left-radius: 6px; border-top-right-radius: 6px; border-bottom-right-radius: 6px; border-bottom-left-radius: 6px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">Processor : <b>Two Intel Xeon Processor E5-2630</b> (<b>Six Core, 2.30GHz Turbo</b>, 15MB, 7.2 GT/s)
Memory : <b>128GB</b> (16x8GB) 1600MHz DDR3 ECC RDIMM
Hard Drive : <b>4x2TB</b> 3.5inch Serial ATA (7.200 Rpm) Hard Drive
HDD Controller : PERC H310 SATA/SAS Controller for Dell Precision
HDD Configuration : C1 SATA 3.5inch, 1-4 Hard Drives
Graphics : <b>Dual 2 GB NVIDIA Quadro 4000</b> (2cards w/ 2DP & 1DVI-I each) (2DP-DVI & 2DVI-VGA adapter) (MRGA17H)
Network : Intel X520-T2 Dual Port <b>10GbE Network Interface Card</b></pre></div>
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