I have some budget to spend for a customisable Dell Tower Server (Dell, because the company has an arrangement with them). We already have got another Dell Tower Server which was maximised for memory-intense work and parallel tasks (i.e. it has two Xeon CPUs with 12 cores each). The purpose of a second system is to maximise speed of computation, primarily for single-core tasks, as I use a lot of self-written C/C++ code.
I am looking at this selection:
http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/poweredge-tower-serve...
My questions for this are as follows:
(1) Which CPU would be ideal for single-cpu speed?
(2) Does a dual-CPU system have any impact on speed (increase or even decrease)?
(3) What would be a good and not too expensive choice for an SSD, e.g. 1TB?
Or, would the new MacPro be a viable alternative?
Cheers,
Stingery