Core counts has gone up quite considerably in the last few years, certainly in a compute farm context. 10 years ago, you'd be looking at 2U servers having 8 cor

Core counts has gone up quite considerably in the last few years, certainly in a compute farm context. 10 years ago, you'd be looking at 2U servers having 8 cores (dual quad core) as high density. These days, 2U servers can pack 4 sockets, and processors are in the high 20 something cores, so if you've got deep pockets you can get over 100 cores in 2U.