[Eeglablist] 64 Bit EEGLAB / 64 Bit Matlab / 64 Bit Linux

[Philip Michael Zeman]

Hi Alexander

To answer your question very simply: "yes". Get a 64-bit machine and a 
64-bit OS.

All you need is a 64-bit operating system so that you can address a very 
large memory space.  I'm running Windows Vista (which has proven to be very 
stable with Matlab 7) and I can process 6 gigabytes of EEG data.  I have 8 
gigabytes of RAM installed.  When my memory requirements exceed the 8 gig 
space, the OS seems to allow me to access disk swap space (when this happens 
things slow down, but I am still able to process data).

Regards,

Philip Michael Zeman
pzeman at alumni.uvic.ca


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexander J Annala, PhD" <alexander.annala at cleveland.edu>
To: <eeglablist at sccn.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 5:33 PM
Subject: [Eeglablist] 64 Bit EEGLAB / 64 Bit Matlab / 64 Bit Linux


>
> This may be a bit of a naive question - but it seems to me - perhaps
> due to 32 bit MATLAB limitations - running on WINDOWS XP 32 bit
> version - that I can only load and process about 10 minutes at a time
> of EEG continuously recorded for an hour across 80 to 120 channels
> digitized at 1000 Hz on our NeuroScan NuAmps amplifiers.
>
> Would acquiring and installing 64 Bit Matlab to run on 64 Bit Linux
> provide us with a 64 Bit EEGLAB environment that would overcome this
> limitation - enabling us to process a full hour or perhaps a bit more
> or less than an hour of EEG acquired at this rate?  If so, does anyone
> know which 64 Bit Linux distribution works best - or at least works
> well - with EEGLAB 6 and/or 7?
>
> Very Kind Regards,
>
> Alexander J Annala, PhD
> Associate Professor of Medical Physiology
> Director of EEG Systems Research Laboratory
>
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