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Hi Niyanta,
What lightsheet instrument and what is the size of your typical dataset? Is
your processing pipeline primarily for segmentation or multiview
deconvolution? This will dictate, to a large extent, the kind of memory and
CPU you need.
An RTX 2080ti or Titan RTX will be competitively performant but much
cheaper than a Quadro card, which offers no benefits for an image analysis
workflow unless you're running virtual machines. If your workflow is
primarily single view deconvolution, multiple GPUs can also be a huge boon
in terms of processing throughput, especially if individual volumes can fit
in 11 GB of VRAM since you can fill a large workstation to bursting with
2080ti's for the price of 1 Quadro card. Even 2x Titan RTX can be had for
less than the price of 1x Quadro 6000.
Depending on the specific piece of software, many will not scale
efficiently to >16 cores and a faster clocked CPU with fewer cores may be
advantageous. If you can benchmark it on a high core count system, that
should show whether your pipelines are able to keep that many cores fed
before running into algorithmic, disk access or memory throughput
bottlenecks.
Best,
Pavak
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 1:27 PM Niyanta Kumar <
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> Hi all,
> I plan to get a workstation that can handle confocal and lightsheet data
> analysis using Imaris and/or Arivis. Lightsheet data clearly has the higher
> bar/needs in terms of specs. Below are the specs I am considering. Can you
> please let me know if you have any recommendations?
>
> Lenovo Think Station P920
> 3.7 GHz CPUs (Intel) 48 cores
> Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 or 8000
> 4 X 3 TB of local SSD (multiple drives - one for the OS, one for writing,
> one for reading)
> RAM: 500 GB
> Monitor: dual 1920 x 1200
> 300 TB NAS via 10 GB ethernet – file sharing
> Mouse: 3 button wheel
>
> Monitor: thinking of a dual Lenovo Think Vision P32u-10 but it doesn’t
> have a full array LED. Any suggestions? I hear the curved monitors can
> cause issues with display when sharing screens over Webex etc.
> Thanks,
> Niyanta
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