6 to 8 week analysis goes through many steps on many machines. "How many cores" isn't directly comparable. All of our sold products target 6 to 8 weeks. Think

6 to 8 week analysis goes through many steps on many machines. "How many cores" isn't directly comparable. All of our sold products target 6 to 8 weeks. Think of it like an assembly line. How many robot arms does the assembly line need to produce something in 6 to 8 weeks? It depends on the type of object being produced; more intricate details, sizes, or etc might need to go through more robots, more arms. An assembly line for a complex item, such as a vehicle, doesn't put all of the materials in front of a single robot and give the robot more arms. It instead goes through many different robots with specialized purposes. So if your factory produces many different things, but some of those specialized robots could be generalized again for multiple products so that you share those robots among things being produced, you might have one robot that spends 20% of its time producing a thousand of product A and 75% of its time producing a hundred of product B, and another 5% of its time in maintenance. It's the same for DNA analysis; it goes through many different software steps, each with varying requirements of I/O throughput, CPU speeds, memory size, etc. Each individual step could be (and generally is) run on different machines with different resources suited to a particular step. Sometimes those steps can be shared among different products. But different products will take different amounts of time to work through the analysis. The machines running our largest analysis steps have 88 cores and 512GiB of RAM. But number of cores is not indicative of why it takes 6 to 8 weeks to process.