[Eeglablist] Accelerating lowpass running time

[Avi Lazarovits]

Hello,

I am using EEGlab to process EEG recordings, and running low pass 100 Hz is
very slow. I am looking for code modifications I can make to accelerate the
running time, and also recommendation for optimal hardware specs for this
process.

The files I process are recordings of 66 channles @ 2KHz ~10 minutes long
(1086734 samples) bug. I can’t resample the files because I need high
temporal resolution.

I use EEGlab version 11.0.3.1b, and run “firls” filter. I run the filter
with the following command:

EEG = pop_eegfilt( EEG, 0, 100, [], 0,0, 0, ‘firls’, 0);

When I run this command I get the following message:

eegfilt() - performing 6144-point highpass filtering.

eegfilt() - highpass transition band width is 0.2 Hz.



The computer I run the processing on now is i5 3470 (4 cores@ 3.2 Ghz) with
4Gb RAM running windows 7 enterprise 64 bit and Matlab 2012a.

I tried running the same process on an i7 extreme edition 3930k with 64Gb
RAM system and it didn't shorten the running time at all. I also tried
running this filter on a workstation with Xeon CPU and it shortened the
running time, but not significantly. I looked on the CPU monitor and found
that it doesn’t use more than 1 core, and that the maximal RAM memory usage
during the processing was about 6.5 Gb.

1.     I found that using SSD shortens the time significantly, and
therefore I assume that one of the big bottlenecks of this processing is
that the process is made on the hard disk and not on the RAM. Is there a
way to “make” Matlab use RAM instead of the hard drive?

2.     Are there code changes I can make in EEGlab’s code to run this
filter multithreaded so that the process will use all the cores of my CPU?
Is there any way to make this process on GPU? Will it accelerate the
process more than using parallel computing of the CPU?



Thank you

Avi
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