I'm in a computational biology lab. I extensively benchmarked intel vs. AMD. We run different kinds of calculations, some of which will use a whole node's worth of processors and others that run just on a single core, but we run tons of them at the same time. AMD is a tremendous value in either scenario. Intel processors are interesting if you can only have a certain small number of nodes and are only trying to maximize processing power rather than cost effectiveness, but AMD's approach of just giving you a bunch of cores on the cheap has been great for us.
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I'm in a computational biology lab. I extensively benchmarked intel vs. AMD. We run different kinds of calculations, some of which will use a whole node's worth of processors and others that run just on a single core, but we run tons of them at the same time. AMD is a tremendous value in either scenario. Intel processors are interesting if you can only have a certain small number of nodes and are only trying to maximize processing power rather than cost effectiveness, but AMD's approach of just giving you a bunch of cores on the cheap has been great for us.