Jaco Hagoort
16th October 2008, 14:56
Hello,
I would like to have some advice and hear some user experience for a nice new Amira (Avizo) system. I’m asking this here because there’s no Amira forum, as far as I know.
We use Amira 5.01 for volume rendering of (large) microscopy datasets (Voltex, Volren) and segmentation with surface rendering. On the current system the 1GB memory/chunk limit is a problem. Also transparent and/or large surfaces are rendered slow. Therefore we would like to switch from a 32-bit desktop computer to a 64-bit workstation with a better display adapter.
Dell workstations are offered with workstation graphic cards ranging from entry level (e.g. Nvidia Quadro FX570, <100 euro) up to very expensive ones (e.g. nVidia Quadro FX 4600, +1000 euro). Amira tech support advised consumer game cards (e.g. Nvidia Geforce 9800 <300 euro).
I like to have some system suggestions concerning:
1. WindowsXP-64 or Vista-64
2. dual core, 3GHz-E8400 or quad core, 2.83GHz-Q9550
3. workstation graphics card (NVidia Quadro, ATI FireGL)
or game card (Nvidia GeForce, ATI Radeon)
At the moment we are using this system:
Dell Optiplex 745 (desktop), dual screen
Windows XPPro-32bit (/3GB switch)
Intel Core2Duo E6400-2.13 GHz (1x Dual Core)
4GB RAM (DDR2-667)
250+500 GB Harddisk (SATA II-7.200 rpm)
256MB ATI RADEON X1300 PRO (2xDVI)
We plan to buy a system like this
Dell Precision T3400 (workstation), dual screen
Windows XPPro-64bit
Intel Core2Duo E8400-3.0 GHz (1x Dual Core)
8GB RAM (DDR2-800)
250+500 GB Harddisk (SATA II-7.200 rpm)
256MB NVIDIA Quadro FX 570 (2xDVI)
Jaco Hagoort
AMC, University of Amsterdam
I would like to have some advice and hear some user experience for a nice new Amira (Avizo) system. I’m asking this here because there’s no Amira forum, as far as I know.
We use Amira 5.01 for volume rendering of (large) microscopy datasets (Voltex, Volren) and segmentation with surface rendering. On the current system the 1GB memory/chunk limit is a problem. Also transparent and/or large surfaces are rendered slow. Therefore we would like to switch from a 32-bit desktop computer to a 64-bit workstation with a better display adapter.
Dell workstations are offered with workstation graphic cards ranging from entry level (e.g. Nvidia Quadro FX570, <100 euro) up to very expensive ones (e.g. nVidia Quadro FX 4600, +1000 euro). Amira tech support advised consumer game cards (e.g. Nvidia Geforce 9800 <300 euro).
I like to have some system suggestions concerning:
1. WindowsXP-64 or Vista-64
2. dual core, 3GHz-E8400 or quad core, 2.83GHz-Q9550
3. workstation graphics card (NVidia Quadro, ATI FireGL)
or game card (Nvidia GeForce, ATI Radeon)
At the moment we are using this system:
Dell Optiplex 745 (desktop), dual screen
Windows XPPro-32bit (/3GB switch)
Intel Core2Duo E6400-2.13 GHz (1x Dual Core)
4GB RAM (DDR2-667)
250+500 GB Harddisk (SATA II-7.200 rpm)
256MB ATI RADEON X1300 PRO (2xDVI)
We plan to buy a system like this
Dell Precision T3400 (workstation), dual screen
Windows XPPro-64bit
Intel Core2Duo E8400-3.0 GHz (1x Dual Core)
8GB RAM (DDR2-800)
250+500 GB Harddisk (SATA II-7.200 rpm)
256MB NVIDIA Quadro FX 570 (2xDVI)
Jaco Hagoort
AMC, University of Amsterdam