Quote Originally Posted by Devil's Prophet View Post
More power as in more cores? More parallel power in situations that need serial power? Or what are you saying that isn't right?

Doesn't he mean the absolute numbers are more important than the scaling numbers on their own? Just like you say in the above of this quotation.

Anyway, are you sure you're not pulling his words out of context in a charade of sarcasm? Because in my experience that happens A LOT in here.
From my understanding he's saying that you should have loads of performance with whatever the software was initially designed for, and the more nodes you add the less of an improvement you should get (diminishing returns).

Being a software developer he should know rule #1 with server apps: The software should scale with an infinite number of CPUs.

I agree with his comments about absolute power, especially with Intel favouring single-threaded apps - this is a good plan from Intel. However, when he starts talking about scaling shouldn't scale evenly, he's lost me. Completely. If you don't scale evenly, there's a bottleneck somewhere and that bottleneck needs to be resolved. Its NOT a good thing!