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Machine Vision Quantification of

Plant Growth and Development

Computer Hardware Capabilities

Phytomorph Home

The Team

Amir H. Assadi - CoPI

Nicola J. Ferrier - CoPI

Edgar P. Spalding - PI

Tessa Durham Brooks

Nathan D. Miller

Candace Randall Moore

 Ram Subramanian

Ioan Vlad Uilecan

Liya Wang

 

The Location

Department of Botany

University of Wisconsin

  

Some Results

Example Images

Gravitropism

Seed Size

Example Movies

 

Hardware

Computers

Camera-Controlling Robot

Sample Grid Fixture

Image Acquisition Apparatus

 

Small Sun Grid - This grid will be used to run Matlab and the distributed computing toolbox.

   Ten SUN-Blade 1500 Workstations running Solaris 10 O.S.

          - 1.5-GHz UltraSPARC IIIi processor

          - 1 GB RAM

          - 120 GB HDD

Servers - These computers are used for analyzing large datasets.

   SuperServer 7045B running Vista and XP 64

          - Two Intel 2GHz Quad core processors

          - 24 GB RAM

          - 2.5 TB RAID HDD (5 x 500 GB)

   SuperServer 7045B running Vista and XP 64

          - Two Intel 2GHz Quad core processors

          - 32 GB RAM

          - 5 TB HDD (5 x 1 TB)

Other Analysis Computers - These computers distribute jobs to 4 additional computers for analysis.

   Dell Precision 690 running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x 64 Edition

          - 2 GHz

          - 5 GB RAM

   Dell Precision 690 running Windows Vista 64

          - 2.33 GHz

          - 16 GB RAM

Sun Grid Compute Utility (network.com) - This grid is utilized when running time-consuming .m codes.

          - We mainly use Fremat on this grid.

Phytomorph Server - This computer hosts phytomorph.wisc.edu, runs a firewall protected Samba server for intra-laboratory file sharing, and runs a

          password protected DAV server for inter-laboratory file sharing.  A simplified diagram of this inter-laboratory data flow can be found here.

          Currently a Dell Dimension 3000 with 80 GB HDD.  Phytomorph will be upgraded soon to a RAID array for improved write speeds, faster

          database queries and increased storage capacity.

Network Drives - Currently we have 2.3 TB of backup protected storage on four desktop computers.

 

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Feedback, questions, or accessibility issues: spalding@wisc.edu; Last updated: November 6, 2007