I've been reading a lot about how nice multicore processors are for business
apps on desktops and how nice they will be for servers. Microsoft recently
came out and said they would allow single-processor licenses to operate
across multiple processor cores. Seems like someone could get a lot of use
from a P4 Extreme Edition with HT (4 quasi-parallel units) by creating a
cheap workgroup/Web server out of it. I know Intel and AMD are/will be
releasing server versions of their multicore CPUs, but have consistently
found reliable servers using desktop processors to be far less expensive.
Since my program's needs aren't huge but would definitely take advantage of
parallel processing, cheap is good - has anyone else investigated this
angle? Companies probably won't be selling this type of machine for a few
months, but it just sounds like a big win for the small fry server market.
-Orion
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