On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:05 AM, Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote: > On the Intel side, a dual socket solution > will even outperform a quad socket solution so if one is looking for > Intel cpu solutions, dual socket is the only sensible choice. But that Wow, that's a pretty impressive statement, can you elaborate on that? You mean, for every possible workload? Is it something you learned from direct experience, or have you read about it? If so, where? If from experience, what was the general setup, applications, etc? Thank you very much again for all your responses -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina