Community 3.3.6

[Justin Lewis]

I have been monitoring my computer resources and discovered they are not completely used during processing, is this normal?

[David Alamillo]

Hi Justin,

Thank you for your question, I would be happy to address it. In general, a saturated hardware component (e.g. CPU or GPU) is a sign of a unoptimized or badly designed software. Correlator3D balances the use of computer resources to avoid bottlenecks and as such, monitoring your PC will not provide a good metric of its performance. In many cases, the limiting factor will not be the CPU/GPU, but reading the data from disk. You should consider using an SSD, at least to store your input images and the temporary folder of Correlator3D (you can specify this folder in the General Settings dialog from the File menu). Also note that the resource usage varies depending on the Correlator3D module used.

[Justin Lewis]

Thank you David, this makes sense, I will make sure to share with our IT dept. as well.