What sort of speedup can we expect for DB2/3 with some expensive, exotic PC system (for example, overclocked Intel Skulltrail/upcoming core i9) over a COTS Pentium 4 PC? Exponential?
Or, would it provide a better speedup with, say, 5 p3 PCs versus 1 exotic gamer PC? Would that provide an exponential speedup?
I'm thinking with DB3, since it's supposed to be highly parallelized, several low-end PCs would perform better than 1 uberfast PC. However, with the more serialized DB2, we should expect better performance with 1 high-end PC, right?
Also, would it be faster to network several low-end computers with small size environments/populations or use 1 high-end PC with a large-size environment?
Basically, I have like 4 p3 laptops I never use, is it worth it to connect them together with ethernet and have each one run a small DB sim w/ teleporters connecting them?