After running a few more beta tests on the software I need to host, I ran into a problem. It's insanely slow. I got it down from 35 hours to about 12 for phase one. Phase two (it hasn't completed yet) is looking to run at about 48 hours. I did some loop-unrolling and multi-threading on it to help with the processing time, but the test machine isn't a dual core/processor machine.
My original idea what to go with a dual processor. Then all I could find was dual core processors. I finally came across the Asus A8R32 MVP Deluxe (
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/A8R32-MVP) which supports two Athlon 64 X2s. This would be great for the server that runs the programs as they are multi-threaded. Would running two dual core CPUs with CentOS be a reasonable set up for a processor-intensive system? Throw in some Crucial PC3200 RAM and a couple SATA hard drives, would I be good to go in a 2U case?
