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I'm using a 22 core / 44 thread xeon workstation for development and my primary joy using it is being able to run my pytest test suites in parallel. I went from ~45 minutes to run the test suite to about a minute. It is also pretty sweet to be able replicate our three physical servers for bomquote.com, locally.

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Honest question because I'm interested for something similar, why did you go for a Xeon and not an Epyc rig?

I bought the xeon from Ebay at a discount about three years ago, when it was still fairly new. It was some sort of engineering sample and I paid about $3K for it while the list price was at least a multiple higher. We used it for CPU rendering for several years and I've only recently repurposed it for a development workstation, as we moved to software that can utilize GPU rendering. These days I almost certainly buy an AMD Threadripper or Epyc for a development workstation.

You can go to Dell, HP, or Lenovo to get a premade Xeon workstation. Getting Epyc premade requires rather more research to find and qualify a vendor, and that vendor may not make it easy to configure and but from the web site with or having to enter a relationship with a sales rep.

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