Hi Mark,
So you are going to revive your old 3 node cluster and expand that? I would
suggest if you are looking to expand the cluster I would look at the ryzen epyc
rome 2 the second generation of these chips is quite impressive in the sense
you can do double the amount of 2 single intel chips.
I've been out of computation for about 20 years since my master degree.
I'm getting into the game again as a private individual. When I was active
Opteron was just launched - I was an early adopter of amd64 because I
needed the RAM (maybe more accurately I needed to thoroughly thrash my swap
drive