[Gllug] Best option for a lot of compute power

[Rev Simon Rumble]

This one time, at band camp, John Winters wrote:

> 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?

Since this is an activity that is only performed once per term,
wouldn't it be more cost effective to rent some space on a high
performance system/cluster?  That way you don't have to handle
maintenance and the like, and ideally the system would be upgraded as
new computing tech comes along.

I have no idea who provides such services, but I'm sure they must
exist...

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