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We have an application that is very cpu intensive and are installing a new hosting configuration. &nbsp;The application was built with load balancing so it will run on multiple servers and we will add more as we add users. &nbsp;Is there a performance difference with two servers with 1 quad core cpu each &nbsp;or one server with a one dual quad core cpu?. &nbsp;One of these will be our starting configuration for the calculation part of the appliaction.
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We have an application that is very cpu intensive and are installing a new hosting configuration.  The application was built with load balancing so it will run on multiple servers and we will add more as we add users.  Is there a performance difference with two servers with 1 quad core cpu each  or one server with a one dual quad core cpu?.  One of these will be our starting configuration for the calculation part of the appliaction.

2 single quad core servers vs. 1 dual quad core server performance

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