alexruiz95

Hello everyone, I am in the process of building a workstation for image acquisition. I will try to simplify the information for general use, rather than talking extensively about research(: Currently, I use four highspeed PCO edge 5.5 cameras, which are connected to 2 workstation PC’s. My goal is to use one computer to run all the cameras instead of two. A company a few years ago offered two build two PC’s for me, one for two cameras and one for four cameras. (The information is given below). This was in 2016 so I am hoping that mores law is working in my favor. Here are the two build configurations that I am using as reference for the new build. I have left all the details, even though my major interest is selecting the proper Motherboard and CPU’s since those are the most important for this application. There is a bit of fluff (networking stuff) that I don't really need, kinda seems like overkill idk. links: ttps://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/77781/intel-core-i7-4820k-processor-10m-cache-up-to-3-90-ghz.html https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9SRA.cfm https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/64592/intel-xeon-processor-e5-2603-10m-cache-1-80-ghz-6-40-gt-s-intel-qpi.html https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DRX_-F.cfm BACKGROUND: The highspeed cameras require “Frame Grabber” Cards that connect via the PCI ports. I will be using four cards one for each camera. Therefore, at minimum, I will need 5 PCI ports (GPU). Frame Grabber Cards: https://silicon.software/product/microenable-iv-vd4-cl/ -Quick Spec’s microEnable IV VD4-CL focuses on fast image processing with all Camera Link cameras and enables with DMA900 technology and VisualApplets advanced customized applications with the robust industrial Machine Vision standard. • All formats of Camera Link standard including non-Standard formats** • BayerHQe Quality (5x5) • Image Enhancement by On-Board Noise Filter • Shading Correction (Offset and Gain) • DMA900 / up to 900 MB/s PCIe Data bandwidth (PCIe x4) • Camera Simulator • Broad support of Third-party software interfaces • Versatile application and industry usage • Easy programmable Vision processor for individual realtime functionality • Robust and industrial FPGA Technology PIC: How much data is generated? I currently can only record 10 seconds worth of data, on average ~2.4 Gb/s, so ~24 GB’s of data is generated per trial. It all stored on ram before it is written to disk. Let's assume the maximum which is 900 MB/s x 4 = 3.6 GB/s . Questions Do I still need a dual CPU board? Or will a modern-day single CPU suffice? Which motherboard is “Best”? Component recommendations? How can I best determine which components are applicable for the system? I would like to make the system KINDA portable since I will be moving between labs. Since I will have to get this approved, I would like to have a budget configuration and a moderate configuration. The budget build being the minimum configuration to just connect the four cameras. My main goal is to use one computer to connect the four cameras too since using two computers isn't fun. I can run some tests to see the load on the current workstations if that will help. ANY HELP IS MUCH APPRECIATED! Just need a little guidance