How many CORES do you run ?

**Mars11** · April 7th, 2012

Originally Posted by lisati

My server (approx 7 years old) is a 64-bit single core machine - fairly modest specs by today's standards, but it works, and it's definitely more suited to the task than the 12+ year old machine sitting on the floor next to it.

Haha, my home server is ~14 years old. It has a 32-bit single core processor at 333MHz with 128MB of RAM - it's far from modest specs (Minimum requirements for Windows XP), but it runs Ubuntu Server 11.10 just fine with as a FTP/Samba File/Samba Printer/CUPS Printer server.

The laptop I'm currently using has 2 physical cores, but 4 virtual cores. It can pretty much do anything I throw at it.

**KL_72_TR** · April 7th, 2012

I have one PC with a Core 2 Duo E 7500.
But right now I'm using a 2002 mobo with Celeron 2.40GHz.

**BertN45** · April 7th, 2012

One

**gandalf3** · April 7th, 2012

one as well, but it's hyper threaded, so my machine sees it as two (i voted one though)
pentium4 3.2 ghz.
wish it was like a core2 quad or something.. :/

**linuxyogi** · April 7th, 2012

PC1

Athlon 64X2 5600+

PC2 (old)

Celeron D 2.13 Ghz

**arclance** · April 7th, 2012

Originally Posted by Bandit

64 cores LOL...

I have used 10 cores of the 256 core computational cluster at my college before.
It cut the processing time for each data set I collected for my research project down to 2 hours, from 48+ hours on my desktop.
Since you only need a terminal to run Octave I did everything headless over ssh.

**Max Blyss** · April 8th, 2012

Dual core Pentium P6000 in the Lapatop, and a weird single - core Athlon 64 3500 in Frankenbox 1. Dual Core Pentium 4 in Frankenbox 2... (Both Frankenboxes are rebuilds of old HP Pavillion units from '04 and '05 that relatives THOUGHT didn't work anymore because they borked up their *******...

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**Bandit** · April 8th, 2012

Originally Posted by arclance

I have used 10 cores of the 256 core computational cluster at my college before.
It cut the processing time for each data set I collected for my research project down to 2 hours, from 48+ hours on my desktop.
Since you only need a terminal to run Octave I did everything headless over ssh.

Yea I wished I had the money (and place to put it) to build me a beowolf stack. 10x mATX boards with 8 core chips.. 80 cores to burn just under $5000 smackers!