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Optimized Workstation - which is better?

Optimized Workstation - which is better?

Optimized Workstation - which is better?

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My organization is currently deciding between 2 workstations to be a dedicated Abaqus solver machine, for a small group of several engineers that will work in CAE on their laptop and solve on this workstation.

The two options are:
Xeon Six Core 3.06 GHz processor
2 Xeon QuadCore 2.67 MHz processors

Both would have 24Gb RAM.

My question is - is it more advantageous to have 6 more powerful cores, or 8 less powerful?

Thank you for your help,
Drew

RE: Optimized Workstation - which is better?

Roughly speaking speed increases clockrate*numCPUs^.5, so sadly (I suspect from gut feel) the slower clock speed machine wins.

Actually given the fairly meaty spec I would have thought you could set up a demo, or ask ABAQUS.

Or buy some of each and work to their strengths.

Cheers

Greg Locock


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