Posted by
Martin Spitaler on
URL: http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/Advice-for-offline-image-analysis-computer-tp1109084p1113067.html
Dear Christophe,
you got a lot of replies already, just a few details that are still missing:
- WinXP-64 in combination with 16GB RAM really makes the difference between
work and crash if you open seriously large image files, and it even helps
with software that doesn't actually support it (because then Windows puts
the page file in the memory beyond 3GB instead of the harddrive, which is
obviously much faster). But be aware, some software simply doesn't run on
WindXP-64, e.g. ironically the Leica confocal software and Zeiss ZEN (the
old LSM software works fine!!).
- Even if many programs don't support multiple processors, it is extremely
useful as soon as you use more that one program at the same time: Windows
will assign different processors to different programs, so you can easily do
3D rendering or whatever analysis while doing deconvolution in the
background (as long as RAM and harddrive speed are sufficient).
- Don't forget the harddrives, when you handle GBytes of data that becomes
limiting. We use RAID 0 for that, so almost double read / write speed (but
don't store any data there without backup, it also doubles the risk of disk
failure!).
Good luck,
Martin
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Martin Spitaler, PhD
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