UPDATE FROM MABULA
I have had a very rough 2 months unfortunately health wise. I was struck 3x in a row with bacterial infections. The second infection occurred  after a routine hospital checkup and I became very sick. I had to rest and take a lot of antibiotics. Once I was recovering and restarting work 1 month ago, I again became sick. The infection was not yet gone, so even more antibiotics and rest was needed. Needless to say, it took a lot of my energy and I needed a lot of rest.
Finally, the infection is really gone and my energy is coming back step-by-step now and I have started work again. I am terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for support. I will address all outstanding questions and e-mails step-by step and will be on the forum daily from today.
APP 2.0.0-beta47 will come soon as well, a lot of work was already completed before I became very ill, so the release is also nearly ready for you. Beta47 will be much faster actually. Many workflows will be more than 2x faster, mosaics can even be 10x faster than before because registration really received a major boost... all compared to beta46. Â Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
Looking for hardware specs for a top-end laptop for AstroPixelProcessor. I assume the more cores the better, lots of memory (32Gig up), powerful GPU and lots of fast drive space. Should I be looking for Intel or AMD Ryzen?
Wayne
Yep, that's right, the more cores the better. Regarding a laptop I would also look for one that has proper cooling (laptops throttle down faster than a desktop usually), 32GB should be plenty but of course, more is nice as well. The GPU isn't being used that much yet, so that's for a future version. If however you can't change the GPU (usually you can't) then a powerful one would be good to have. Ryzen currently has the better CPU's it seems.
If you don't need to be mobile for processing, maybe also look at desktops? They tend to be cheaper faster and you can still exchange components for the future.
@vincent-mod Hi Vincent - thanks!
For curiosity sake, how many cores is too much or unnecessary? There is a Threadripper processor with 64 cores, 128 threads for as much as a top end computer. Would APP even use that many? I'm thinking 16 may be the sweet spot?
I don't think there is a hard limit on the cores, I believe Mabula is using one with that many (not sure). If you have a big dataset and APP can chop it up in 128 threads it will.
@vincent-mod Thanks! It’s just that taking hundreds of subs with these new larger CMOS sensors really need a lot more processing power.Â
For sure yes, of course APP does become faster with each update usually and I hope we can add GPU support somewhere down the line, that would make quite a difference as well.
