There is an untold story involving software licenses. Many software are licensed to run on certain PE (cpu core) counts. A 1024 PE license costs you 64 times as

There is an untold story involving software licenses. Many software are licensed to run on certain PE (cpu core) counts. A 1024 PE license costs you 64 times as much as single host license. Moreover the software costs may easily exceed the core costs. In these cases the bottleneck is software fees and the easiest solution is to use higher quality cores.