I would say get the 2600 as 3rd gen are about to be released... can't see why you'd get a 1st gen now. I doubt your GTX 1060 is somehow going to be significantly bottlenecked... the CPU supports PCIe 3.0 x16
Dell Power Manager *might* have the ability to read battery informaiton and show you details. otherwise, get a battery info tool - https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/battery_information_view.html
Have you tested without overclocking? Have you turned off X.M.P.? Have you updated and properly configured the BIOS? Did you install the intel chipset drivers?
I think version numbers are done because they'll use different memory chips depending on supply availability for the same model. It *should* be all fine but you won't know until you use it.
Either find cloud services, or if you have the budget build your own.. Ryzen Threadripper is likely less cost per core.. You'll need to likely have a host + compute nodes if you want 128 cores (could it be 64 cores with hyper-threading?)
What's your budget is really what it comes down to.
ronch79Just $100M? Isn't that a little bit on the cheap side considering this is one major, major project? I also read somewhere that the Obama administration and the DOE is putting out $120 for universities to come up with next-generation batteries with 5x the capacity within a 5 year period...