Hi Joseph if you have lots to get through you might be better off running two with 4 cores at a time. Speed increase is pretty good through 4 last time Nick tested, but then the benefits fall off a bit Bruce
On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, joseph veliz wrote: > What is the best set up to utilize the multicore capability of freesurfer? > > Should we open a seperate terminal for each subject and run 3 simultaneous > recons with the > -openmp 8, on each recon command line? > > Or is there a more efficient way of utilizing 8 cores and 16 gb of memory? > > thanks so much > > joseph > > > > _______________________________________________ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail.