Hi, Dan Ritter wrote: > Machrone's Law: the computer you really want always costs $5000.
There once was a rule for Hewlett Packard Germany that every part costs 5000 Mark. Actually i am in good hope for my next workstation for about 1600 EUR: Xeon, 4+ GHz, 4 core, 32 GB DDR4-2666 ECC, 500 GB NVMe x4, 4 TB HDD CMR, Blu-ray burner, low noise Midi-Tower, extra silent 550W power supply (3 percent points VAT reduction because of the plague times we are in !) I lack of ideas for employing more than 4 cores with 8 threads. But if i had bursting money bags, highly parallel work to do, and a free room in the basement, i'd consider a double processor with 192 cores and 768 Threads: https://www.hardwareluxx.de/images/cdn01/8796C26D364947EEADD20D47BCA5D03D/img/9A6D747A98C74942B3962C889D782DDC/Gigabyte-Marvell-ThunderX3-00001_9A6D747A98C74942B3962C889D782DDC.jpg Nevertheless, i am already duely impressed by the single Threadripper with 64 cores (for about 3900 EUR over here). Have a nice day :) Thomas
