Re: I need a serious workhorse computer for complex simulations
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I will add this. Given the computational parameters in your original post, it seems to me that a dual quad-core system would be overkill. You could probably get by with something smaller for much less.
That's just semi-informed personal opinion though. I can't provide any evidence to back that up.
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Would depend on how many threads are being run or how many individual processes are being started.
If its a truly multi-threaded application, the more core's the better...though I don't know how well Mac OS scales for CPUs. Windows tends to stop scaling decently after 4, though it still utilizes the processors, just less effectively as Windows doesn't pin the scheduler to a particular CPU. But since Mac is built off of Unix, it might do better with up to 8.
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