After Round 12, we had to find a new physical hardware environment. ServerCentral [1] stepped up and provided some (older) physical hardware for the project.

After Round 12, we had to find a new physical hardware environment. ServerCentral [1] stepped up and provided some (older) physical hardware for the project. However, the new hardware doesn't match the performance of previous rounds. The physical hardware for each round has been [2]: * Rounds 1 through 8: i7-2600K workstations * Round 9 through 12: 2x Xeon E5-2660v2 * Round 13: 4x Xeon E7-4850 [1] https://www.servercentral.com/ https://www.servercentral.com/ [2] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=environment https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=environment