Computer platforms configuration

Test platforms

We choose two computers of different types :

• nestor : a desktop computer with one CPU, four cores and 8 threads;

• taurus : a typical server with two CPUs, 12 cores each and 48 threads.

This choice allows us to check how both libraries make use of a high number of virtual CPUs (OpenMP), even if many morphological algorithms can't be easily parallelized.

taurus (server)

• Computer Dell PowerEdge R540

• CPU : 2 X Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 5118 CPU @ 2.30GHz

• 12 cores - 2 threads - Total 48 VCPUs

• Memory : 384 GiB

• Operating system - Linux Ubuntu 18.04

• Smil Python version : 1.0.0-dev

• conda 4.10.3

• scikit-image version : 0.18.1

• Numpy 1.20.3

• Python 3.8.11

nestor (desktop computer)

• Desktop computer Dell OptiPlex 7010

• CPU : 1 x Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz

• 4 cores - 2 threads - Total 8 VCPUs

• Memory : 16 GiB

• Operating system - Linux Ubuntu 20.04

• Smil Python version : 1.0.0-dev

• scikit-image version : 0.18.2

• Numpy 1.21.0

• Python 3.8.10