On Feb 18, 2013, at 2:18 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > So if two cores takes me 20 minutes to pre-process, four takes 12, and eight > takes 8, and it doesn't cost me much more money for the extra speed, I'll > give up a little space on the top of my desk.
Don't forget to factor I/O speed in; when you hit the limits of file transfer speed then it won't matter how many cores you have. I don't know if this is feasible, but could you set it up so your initial processing happens using an SSD, then you move the files off to big spinning-rust disks afterwards? That way you'd get a shedload of speed when you need it most, but you don't have to mortgage the house to buy your SSDs in the terabytes. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
