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

[Hans Johnson]

Christoph,

The MIND institute is running brains2 successfully on 30+ G5 macintosh
computers.  I personally use a Mac for brains2.  I just wanted to mention
that this is also a viable option for running BRAINS.

Hans



On 4/18/06 12:35 PM, "Ben Rogers" <ben-rogers at uiowa.edu> wrote:

> 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
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 
> 
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