On Sun, 16 Oct 2011 11:53:26 PM James Sinnamon wrote:
sufficient grunt to be able to run a java application (which will run the order of 100-200 or more threads)
The issue isn't the number of threads, but what those threads will be doing - if only a handful of them are going to be active at any one time then a single modern processor is likely to be more than enough but if a lot of them are going to be CPU bound then you'll be wanting to aim for a box with as many cores as you can get. As for RAM - well Java is not known for its light memory limits, there's one Java code that's run at VLSCI that can fail if it gets less than 30GB or 60GB of RAM, but we believe that's because it's doing stupid things with its file IO. :-( cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP