Re: [Freesurfer] performance: bert -autorecon1

2009-03-04 Thread Nick Schmansky
Stephen, The 30 minute estimate for the -autorecon1 stage is no longer accurate. It got slower when we added a feature to improved the skull-strip step. The feature is to make use of an atlas to determine where skull and cerebellum might be. To use that atlas requires a registration to that atlas

[Freesurfer] performance: bert -autorecon1

2009-03-04 Thread Stephen Towler
Hi all. Documentation estimates 30 minutes for -autorecon1 on the sample data provided with the most recent freesurfer release. Our 2008 iMac with 4GB of RAM takes about 90 minutes. Throughout the job CPU utilization was high but there was plenty of free RAM. Is 90 minutes common for similarly equ