I found a 14-core Xeon to give optimal price/performance for my usage. But I guess if that's simply not fast enough to run your app there's always the 18-core; the cores may be slow but the total "MIPS" is still higher.
Initially and no doubt for
a long time, 14 cores will
be plenty for my startup.
I've done my software development
on one core at 1.8 GHz.
Going live, I'm considering
4 cores at about 3.2 GHz
or 8 cores at 4.0 GHz --
for total cost down in the
very low rent district.
Or, the month my startup
keeps 14 cores, or 8 cores,
or even 4 cores, busy will
be when I order a new, high
end Corvette and go shopping
for a really nice house!
My question was not really about
being "fast enough" but
just what the heck is the
cost per core per clock Hz? E.g.,
$160 buys an 8 core AMD
processor at 4.0 GHz, and
a high end Xeon costs
much, much more per
core per clock Hz.
I can see that an Intel
processor would save on
electrical power, but
at least initially that
will be, all other things
considered, small potatoes.
