About workstation

[Kexin Yi]

Hi~
I am Kexin from Hong Kong.
Do you have any ideas about what kind of workstation is proper for
running quickpalm for STORM in a high standard of performance?
Thank you very much!
Kexin

[Ricardo Henriques]

Hi Kexin,
QuickPALM will work on most computers that run java (Mac, Win, Linux).
The only special specs that I would recommend as minimum are:
- 8-cores (or more) at 64-bits
- 20 GB of RAM (or more)
Cheers,
-R

--
Ricardo Henriques, PhD
Institut Pasteur (Paris, France).
For contact information see: https://sites.google.com/site/paxcalpt/

[Ann Wheeler]

Hi Everyone

We run QuickPALM on out workstation which has a 2.5Ghz processor, Quad
core with 12GB of RAM and its totally fine. That said the largest data
set that can load is a stack of 10000 images which are 512 x 512 (3 -
4GB) but we don't actually need that many images to do a good
reconstruction.

Obviously the better the processor and the more RAM the better.

BW

Ann

Dr Ann Wheeler
BALM Facility Manager
Blizard Institute
4 Newark Street
London E1 2AT

Tel: 020 7882 2406

[ye chen]

Hi there,

If I can comment on one related issue. I have some issue with ImageJ's memory.

I used a 64-bit win7 system with 16G RAM for data analysis, which
never is a problem. However, I used the another computer with only 4G
RAM +Win7 to view the data. In this case, after closing a large file,
the RAM is not freed.

I try to click on the status bar, or run a function which supposedly
will release the RAM. The status bar shows that the memory is free,
but it is not indeed, if you view from the system monitor.

The result is after a while, all the RAM is used and I have to restart
ImageJ to actually free those memory. It is also very interesting why
that is not a problem on another computer.

I think the take home message is the more the merrier :)

Cheers,

Ye

--
Ye Chen, Ph.D.
Centre for Micro-Photonics, H34
Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences
Swinburne University of Technology
1 Alfred St. Hawthorn
Victoria 3122, Australia
Ph +61-3-9214-5649