Workstation for 3D modeling, with the major options being:
1) Intel i7-5930K Core or E5-2620 v3 Xeon (only one CPU)?
2) 64 GB RAM to start in 8x8 or 64 GB in 4x16 with space to expand (only in Xeon, of course)?
3) SSD for OS, but is a 10k velociraptor worth it as a dedicated processing drive?
HI
if you want to process high resolution images then i would suggest to use a Workstation with at least 2 high power GPUs - and a lot of RAM.
its just depending on how much time you want to spend sitting in the front waiting for results and money you want to spend.
Yes, we are planning to work with CUDA on the GPUs. We are starting with one GTX980 and hope to acquire another soon. In the end we went with the Xeon over I7 mainly for the options to also expand RAM in the future, starting with 64, but with an eye on 128GB eventually.
I Think you went the right way. In our research group we have a dual Xeon with 98GB ram and a GTX570. We bought a SSD recently because the bottleneck was the time to read and write images (we had a couple of projects with over 10.000 images!!). ALso we already used the 98GB in a couple of projects were we used higher settings in the dense reconstruction in SFM. Carefull with the amount of Ram you have in your graphic card because that can be a problem if you want to process large photos. We will try to upgrade soon to GTX980 with 4GB or more.
Thanks for the feedback! Hopefully our custom workstation will be delivered soon, and maybe we'll have space in our budgets at the end of the year to expand our GPU's and RAM. At least for now we will have a nice base setup to help us catch up with our data processing backlog...
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