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this, so it is not an available option if you also want >64GB of RAM. If
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> Hi Peter,
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> If you have ever built your own PC, or know someone who has, you can
> benefit greatly from building it custom. Off-the-shelf systems can be
> upmarked considerably and often use outdated components or skimp on
> important things like a good power supply. Of course, the benefit of that
> would be presumably a warranty on the whole system, in case you are not
> able to diagnose things yourself, but if you build a custom system, each
> component will come with its own warranty. It would just be up to you to
> determine which component is faulty and claim the warranty on it yourself.
>
> I recently built such a computer for light sheet data acquisition and
> processing/analysis. Here is the configuration:
>
> Motherboard: Asus Z10PE-D16 WS
> CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2650 V4 (x2)
> CPU cooler: Noctua NH-U12DXi4 (x2)
> Memory: Samsung M393A2G40EB1-CRC 16GB DDR4 2400MHz ECC-Reg (x8 = 128 GB
> total)
> OS drive: Samsung 960 EVO 500GB M.2-2280 SSD (on a PCIE M.2 adapter
> because the motherboard runs its onboard M.2 at SATA speed)
> Data drive: Samsung 850 EVO 1TB SATA (6 drives in RAID10 configuration)
> Video card: GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB
> Case: Phanteks Enthoo Primo
> Power supply: EVGA SuperNOVA P2 1200W 80+ Platinum
>
> You will obviously also need monitors, keyboard, mouse, Windows license,
> and some kind of data server - you should assume that you will not be
> storing your data on this computer if you are generating 1TB datasets. I
> got a Synology DS1817+ 8-bay NAS with a 10GbE adapter and loaded it with 8
> Western Digital Gold 10TB drives (WD101KRYZ), and run them in SHR2
> (basically RAID6, for double-parity, i.e. you can lose two drives and still
> be able to recover). I also got a 10GbE adapter for the workstation PC,
> this allows utilization of the maximum transfer rates the RAID array is
> capable of, which is 3-4 times faster than standard Gigabit Ethernet. This
> data server is costly but, for light sheet data, basically necessary if
> your institute does not provide substantial data storage.
>
> Another thing to note is that component prices can fluctuate quite a bit.
> I bought the video card in the summer for under $740. Right now they are
> out of stock everywhere (1080 Ti of any brand), and when they are in stock,
> they go for anywhere up to $2,000 (you have bitcoin mining to thank for
> that). You can get a Titan Xp for less than that now so the
> price/perfomance advantage of the 1080 Ti is no longer there, but look for
> the Titans to also disappear off the market really quickly as mining
> expands higher up the range.
>
> All told, I spent around $9,000 for the workstation and $4,500 for the
> data server. Comparable off-the-shelf workstations cost around $12,000 -
> $15,000 (and possibly even more now with the GPU market up in the air and
> RAM prices currently rising), and off-the-shelf data servers of similar
> capacity would cost much more than that.
>
> Assembly and setup of the PC was not trivial, so you will want someone
> with experience to help you. Workstation (Xeon) motherboards can be very
> finicky, and the installation manuals for some components can be pretty
> incomprehensible. Also be aware that if you need multiple PCIE slots
> available for data acquisition cards etc., the GPU only takes one but
> actually occludes at least one more slot (my card took up three slots
> total) so your choice of case/card should be made carefully. I ended up
> cutting a hole in the back panel of the case and mounting the GPU
> vertically with a 2-slot PCI bracket and PCIE riser cable, as I needed
> every last PCIE slot on the motherboard. Some cases come with vertical GPU
> mounting positions, but some of those will block the regular PCIE slots, or
> will be incompatible with SSI-EEB format motherboards (which is what most
> dual CPU boards will be).
>
> Good luck!
>
>
> Mel
>
>
> On 1/15/2018 7:22 AM, Owens, Peter wrote:
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>> Dear listers,
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>> I am looking into purchasing a high end image processing PC , that will
>> be capable of processing large multidimensional data sets up to 1 TB in
>> size.
>> Does anyone have any recommendations on a PC configuration that would be
>> suitable?
>> Do people build custom PCs or buy off the shelf?
>> Are high spec gaming PCs up to this task?
>>
>> thanks for any advice on this .
>>
>> all the best
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> Peter Owens
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