i'm currently doing two other 64-bit ports (ppc64 and x86_64).  so we are
certainly working on that.  we'll see what it actually entails once we have
a copy of tiger to play with :)

--vicka

On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 08:38:14PM -0400, Ray Fix wrote:
> FWIW, it looks like Mac OSX Tiger will be able to address 64 bits of 
> virtual memory.   Finally, eh.  Any plans to utilize this in a future 
> release of FS?
> 
> http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/64bit.html
> 
> Ray
> 
> 
> On Apr 15, 2004, at 9:38 PM, Bruce Fischl wrote:
> 
> > Hi Nick,
> >
> > unfortunately, os/x doesn't allow you to address more than 4G either. 
> > On
> > the bright side though, we have a couple of opteron machines around 
> > that we
> > are actively trying to port to, so I suspect we'll have a 64 bit 
> > version
> > sometime in the next couple of months. We'll let people know when it's
> > ready (you're welcome to be a beta site).
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> >
> >
> >  On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Nick Knouf wrote:
> >
> >> On Apr 15, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Yasunari Tosa wrote:
> >>> Currently, "recon-all" script can take the option of "-cm" (conform 
> >>> to
> >>> min voxel size).
> >>> This may end up creating more slices than 256, but freesurfer should
> >>> be able to handle
> >>> as long as there are enough memory left.   Make sure that you have 2
> >>> Gbyte of
> >>> memory and 2 GByte of swap space.   Here, we are approaching the 32
> >>> bit memory
> >>> address limit.
> >>
> >> {snip}
> >>
> >> This 2gig, 32 bit limit is something I'm starting to worry about.  
> >> With
> >> resolutions of functional data ever increasing, we're getting to the
> >> point where it's likely we'll need to address more than 2 gigs of
> >> memory in the next year or two.
> >>
> >> Are there any plans to address this?  I'm not sure what you can do 
> >> with
> >> FS-FAST, since it depends on Matlab and I don't know if there are
> >> 64-bit versions of matlab available (especially for affordable
> >> platforms like AMD64 and the G5).
> >>
> >> <aside>
> >> I'll insert my plug for moving FS-FAST to python here, as python
> >> natively works on 64 bit platforms.
> >> </aside>
> >>
> >> But with Freesurfer, how hard will it be to build a 64 bit version?  
> >> If
> >> you need a testing machine, I'm working from a dual G5 that would be
> >> more than happy to build Freesurfer :-)
> >>
> >> Nick
> >>
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