[Gllug] Best option for a lot of compute power

[John Winters]

I'm looking into software for the production of school timetables.  All
the approaches seem to have one thing in common - they needs lots of
compute power.

The front runner at the moment is Tablix, which has good support for
running on a whole LAN-full of machines. Unfortunately, although we have
hundreds of machines at school they almost all run Windows and Tablix
hasn't yet been ported to Windows.  (The actual application would be
pretty easy, but add in all the necessary support services and it
becomes a bigger task.)

I am therefore considering putting in a bid for a powerful multi-cpu
workstation.  The obvious choice seems to be between a couple of
hyperthreaded processors (giving almost 4 effective processors) or a
couple of AMD 64 bit processors.  Given that the task is very compute
intensive (but doesn't require much of anything else - memory or i/o)
which would be likely to give the better performance?

TIA,
John
(I know - buy one of each and try it.)

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