[Discuss] best dual core Linux box

[matt at mattshields.org (Matt Shields)]

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Daniel Feenberg <feenberg at nber.org> wrote:

>
> We are in the midst of licensing the SAS software product for a server.
> This is an extremely expensive product, and the charge for a quad-core
> machine is tens of thousands of dollars more than for a dual-core machine.
> If you are unfamiliar with SAS, it does lots of sequential I/O and is rarely
> CPU bound. So we are looking to put together a high performance machine that
> uses only a dual-core processor. I know that dual-core is now usually very
> low-end (or laptop) but creative suggestions are welcome. Ideally we would
> like PCI-e slots for SAS or SATA controllers so that we can have a lot of
> fast local storage.
>
> Daniel Feenberg
> NBER
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I would speak with them about their licensing to get clarification.  Most
licensing is based on physical processors, not how many cores you have.  For
example M$ SQL Server works this way.

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