I’m designing a system that will be on-line in 2016 and run on commodity 1U or 2U server boxes. I’d like to understand how parallel the software will need to be so I’d like to estimate the number of cores per physical machine. I’m not interested in more exotic hardware like video game console processors, GPUs or DSPs. I could extrapolate based on when chips where issued by Intel or AMD, but this historical information seems scarce.
Thanks.
I found the following charts from Design for Manycore Systems: