Huygens GPU acceleration options

This page gives an overview of NVIDIA cards that can be used in combination with the Small, Medium, Large or Extreme GPU option in the latest version of Huygens for GPU acceleration. Over time this page will be refreshed, for a category overview of cards working with older versions of Huygens, please contact support at svi.nl

For cards that are not included in this page: the option that is required in your license will depend on the amount of CUDA cores and amount of RAM that the card has according to the following specifications:

Small GPU option: for cards that have up to 1024 CUDA cores and up to 3 GB of RAM (included with every Huygens license Free of Charge)
Medium GPU option: for cards that have up to 3072 CUDA cores and up to 8 GB of RAM.
Large GPU option: for cards that have up to 8192 CUDA cores and up to 24 GB of RAM.
Extreme GPU option: for cards that have up to 24576 CUDA cores and up to 64 GB of RAM.

Multi-GPU acceleration with Performance options

Besides the GPU options for Huygens, SVI also offers Performance options. For the use of multi-GPU acceleration the Performance Plus, Mega or Extreme option is needed. With Huygens version 16.10.0p8, multi-GPU support has been introduced in the Batch Processor and Huygens Core to perform deconvolution of a queue of images on multiple GPU devices simultaneously. With Huygens 17.10 (Linux) and Huygens 18.04 (Windows), support is added for running a single image deconvolution on multiple GPUs in Huygens Professional. We offer the following performance packages to get the most out of your workstation:

Performance Option: Standard included in Huygens for using up to 6 CPU cores (12 logical when hyper-threaded) and 1 Small GPU card.
Performance Plus: Allows you to use up to 12 CPU cores (24 logical cores when hyper-threaded) and 2 Large GPU cards.
Performance Mega: Allows you to use up to 24 CPU cores (48 logical cores when hyper-threaded) and 4 Large GPU cards.
Performance Extreme: Allows you to use up to 48 CPU cores (96 logical cores when hyper-threaded) and 8 Large GPU cards.

Below is a table that shows which options and commands in Huygens can use single GPU acceleration or multi-GPU acceleration in batch mode.

	Accelerated with GPU (CUDA)
Deconvolution algorithms
CMLE deconvolution	+ Multi GPU support: Operation Window, Batch Processor & Scripting
QMLE deconvolution	+ Multi GPU support: Operation Window, Batch Processor & Scripting
GMLE deconvolution	+ Multi GPU support: Operation Window, Batch Processor & Scripting
Tikhonov-Miller deconvolution
Batch Processor	+ Multi GPU support
Deconvolution Wizard
Deconvolution Express
Batch Express
Localization algorithms for Huygens Localizer
MLE particle fitting
LSQ particle fitting
Center of mass particle fitting
Registration & Deconvolution
Object Stabilizer	+ Multi GPU support: Batch Processor
Drift correction	+ Multi GPU support: Batch Processor
Stitching & Decon Wizard	+ Multi GPU support: HuCore/HRM
Light-Sheet Decon & Fusion Wizard
Image processing commands
Image processing fitlers (min, max, variance ppu, avg, gauss)
Image properites functions (hist, stat, range)
Image processing commands 1 (estbg, phaseCorr)
Image processing commands 2 (getpix, setpix, cp, slice, multiMip, miniMip, sum)
Image processing commands 3 (shift, resample, mirror, hist2ch, label, perc, optrep)
Visualization & Analysis
2D slice renderers
3D SFP renderer	Since v.19.04
3D MIP renderer	Since v.19.04
3D Surface renderer	Since v.19.04
Colocalization Analysis	+ Multi GPU support: HuCore/HRM
Object Analyzer	GPU support for labeling and rendering