Alright, i need some help in building a PC which will be able to handle mapping/orthorectification process and software (Agisoft, Pix4D, the works). The mapping will be used for ecosystem monitoring and distributed to field officers. i need a PC which are able to stitch up thousands of drone/aerial surveillance photo (normal output would be 2 - 5GB of the final output) in less than 24 hours ( if possible)
Please suggest the specs in detail as it'll help me alot. Thanks!
What's the budget?
Is that the only job of it?
Budget is unlimited. Thats the only purpose of the pc. Any ideas?
Unlimited? No really, what's the budget, if it's unlimited just get like a dual xeon build with an array of PCI-e SSDs in a zfs/raid set up with like a gorillian GBs of RAM and some firepro cards just because
Yup. Unlimited cause its funded by the government. I'd like to know about thr best possible specs. And another system with a 4000 bucks budget for regional offices.
I dunno man is this PC a good use of my tax dollars? But the GPUs could be workstation GPUs, although that depends if the software is optimized for cuda or opencl, though I don't know all that much about workstation stuff.
You could just copy this build
Is this stable to run? Thanks for the lead. Hope Wendell has some take on this
I'd imagine, linus and team use it everyday.
Thanks. How about specs for a 4000 bucks system?
Well what's the job that one needs to do?
its similar purpose as the pc above but will be distributed to district offices. the main pc above will be operated by myself while the regional PCs will be operated by field officers.
The main pc will cover large maps or combine smaller maps submitted by officers into a larger map. The regional pcs will produce smaller maps of their own for storage or submit them to the main pc for compiling and merging.
And does the software have any GPU acceleration through cuda or opencl?
And how many threads can it make use of?
Yup. It does support high end OpenCL. And multincore processing. Minimum 3.0gHz
Well like I said, workstations aren't really my thing, so throw this around before you buy 10 of them.
There is the 5960x which has 2 more cores, but costs 500 dollars more and runs at a lower frequency.
And you'll want AMD for openCL I'm fairly certain, went with that card due to price, and VRAM on it.
This case isn't available on the PC part picker atm, but it's just for me
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119265
I also don't know how much RAM you need, or storage so the total right now is 2500, feel free to throw in another GPU, but check the scaling, also might need a higher wattage PSU for 2 of them
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/h7qThM
Thanks man. At least i have somewhere to start. RAM wise the bare minimum is 16GB, DDR4.
Here's some openCL benchmarks for the GPU
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/firepro-w8100-workstation-graphics-card,3868-11.html
Just got my internet back
And ya if you're going to throw in a second 8100, then you might want to bump the PSU up to 1200W, card draws 300 at peak load.
Appreciate the help!