[Brains-users] Optimal handware/software configuration for using Brains2

[Ben Rogers]

Hi Christoph,

We are running primarily Nvidia cards (Mostly Geforce FX 5200) in our 
systems. That said, we are not using the Nvidia drivers because there 
are speed and clipping issues with BRAINS2 and the current Nvidia 
drivers. For systems that are running brains2 the vesa driver is 
recommended at this time. Because of this essentially any graphics card 
will work. We have some systems using built in Intel i810 graphics and 
they have no problems running brains2 with the vesa driver. My only 
recommendation would be that you may wish to purchase an Nvidia card if 
you wish to run dual monitor or to futureproof your system should we 
have the resources to address the problems with the Nvidia drivers. I 
would avoid ATI chipsets as I have had problems with them under Linux in 
the past (though if using the vesa drive they are probably fine as well).

Hope that helps,

Ben

Christoph Christmann wrote:

> hi ben,
>
> what kind of graphics card would you recommend?
>
> TIA
>
> christoph
>
>
> At Tuesday 18.04.2006 16:53, Ben Rogers wrote:
>
>> Hello Christoph,
>>
>> Our primary BRAINS2 platform is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (with all 
>> updates) running on ~3GHz Pentium 4 systems with 2-4GB of ram. If you 
>> plan to run neural nets or other processor intensive applications on 
>> this machine while doing tracing I would recommend that you purchase 
>> either a dual processor or dual core system (either AMD or Intel 
>> processors is fine).
>>
>> Ben Rogers
>> Systems Administrator
>> Dept. of Psychiatry
>> University of Iowa
>> 319-353-8539
>>
>> Christoph Christmann wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> we are curently using BRAINS2 on an old machine (1GHz, Suse Linux 
>>> 9.3) and are planning to setup a second (new) workstation. Is there 
>>> a documentation related to the optimal handware/software 
>>> configuration (with currently available hardware/software) for using 
>>> BRAINS2?
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>> christoph
>>>
>>>
>