Vision based application help

[piZviZ]

I have a LabVIEW based application for Vision inspection system. My application consist of acquisition from  6 cameras. 

My question is which solution is good

1. 6 Cameras connected to single PC1

or

2. 3 Cameras connected to PC1 and other 3 cameras connected to PC2

Brief explanation on your answer is appreciated

[Antoine Chalons]

Well... you're not giving much information about your application.

What kind of camera are you using? USB? FireWire? GigE? Camera-Link? CoaXpress?

From the users' point of view, would it be more practical to have all the camera on 1 computer?

[piZviZ]

Gige camera .... Don't see it from user point of view . Which system combination gives best performance ?

[ensegre]

6 PC.

We mean, what do you take images for? What is the bandwidth? Are the cameras synchronized? Do the images need to be analyzed together, so that some program decides something according to what is in them? Can the computers exchange messages? What latencies are tolerated? Do the images need to be streamed disk? All these are considerations you have to take into account for a design.

[piZviZ]

I take images to inspect defects in bottle.Camera are not synchronized and each camera has independent task.There is no message exhchage between computers.Images not require to stream to disk

[ensegre]

6 PCs if you have a high bandwidth and a highly demanding image processing, one PC if you're tight in space or need a single control station. Or 7 PCs, 6 for processing and one for concentrated display. Personally I'd first evaluate the resources you need for a single task, and how many tasks could compete for resources if they run on a single PC, then assess how many PCs you need for upscaling.

[Antoine Chalons]

Want performance? Go the NI way, use one IC-3173 per camera.

[ensegre]

more PCs, more money, more performance...

[smithd]

4 hours ago, Antoine Chalons said:

Want performance? Go the NI way, use one IC-3173 per camera.

or smart cameras: http://www.ni.com/en-us/shop/select/smart-camera