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| Where can I find answers to technical and performance questions... |
Best place for answers to all of these is at the...
Kakadu discussion forum you will find many regular contributors as well as Dr. David Taubman to help you there.
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| Why the new licensing arrangements? |
Our user community is growing as is the number of high value commercial applications. Both require us to maintain Kakadu's leading edge capabilties. Which has meant that we have had to build up our capacity and to evolve a fairer and more appropriate licensing structure. |
| How is my new Upgrade pricing calculated....? |
All upgrades are the difference between what you paid for your current license and the price of a new Version 6.0 license. |
| Can I get an evaluation copy? |
For a number of reason we do not offer evaluation copies but you can easily purchase a fully functional single user non-commercial license for only $250 from our purchasing page. |
| How do I find out likely performance figures? |
Use this link to check out the performance results ... also you can ask on the Kakadu discussion forum |
| Do you offer compiled binaries (v6+Speedup) ? |
We do not officially offer compiled binaries for the speed-pack right now, so as to minimize the risk (very small) of reverse engineering at this early stage. |
| Speed Pack Medical licensing... We distribute our medical software package to servers and client desktops (to decompress images acquired from the server). How would the licensing work in this case? |
If you wanted to put speed-pack-based applications on the servers, each such server would count as a single deployment instance. Similarly, if you wanted to put speed-pack-based applications on the clients, each client machine would count as a single deployment instance.You can mix and match. You could build slower apps with regular Kakadu for the clients and use the speed-pack only for the server or vice-versa. The idea behind the deployment instance model is that in demanding applications, the speed-pack can save you money on hardware (or operating time). |
| How fast will VS6 Speedpack compress 60mb tiff's into ~4mb jpeg's ? |
the answer to this question can be approximately inferred from the "Speed Tests" spreadsheet we have on the web-site for encoding. There is an example on the spreadsheet involving a 13.3K x 13.3K RGB image (531 MBytes), being compressed to 2 bits/pixel, at 0.145 pictures/second, using the speedpack on a standard 2.4 GB core-2 duo machine. From this, it can be inferred that compressing 60 MB down to 5 MB (12:1 is 2 bits/pixel for RGB, although colour properties were not specified in the original request) should occur at a rate of 1.2 pictures/second. Compressing to the slightly lower target size of 4 MB will be a little bit faster. Of course, if you use a machine with two quad-core Xeons at 3GHz, everything will go faster by a factor of 4 * 3/2.4 = 5. |
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