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Dual-socket i7 is called Xeon. There are dual-socket and even quad-socket 8-core hyperthreaded xeons (the Xeon L75xx series). A 1U Intel with 64 threads will s
by derobert 16y ago
Dual-socket i7 is called Xeon.
There are dual-socket and even quad-socket 8-core hyperthreaded xeons (the Xeon L75xx series). A 1U Intel with 64 threads will set you back about $20k.
AMD has 12-core chips, so you can get 48 cores in 4 sockets there. (But I think they only have one thread per core)
- rbanffy 16y agoSo, -j64 seems quite reasonable, if you have $20K around... ;-) Personally, I would spend a part of the money on 2048x2048 square LCD screens. They look really cool.