I run an FEA code called Abaqus and I am wondering if my dated hardware is a lot slower than say new hardware. I have a dual socket 6 core (each) Xeon system with a processor clock speed of ~3.4GHz with 192 GB of RAM - It is a DDR3 based system. It's an old Dell T7500 but it still runs fine. Will a modern 12 core system of some topology get me much more performance? Getting solves to run faster is definitely worth something to me. Any thoughts? Anybody got a guess at how much faster it might be? Twice as fast? Or is that just too much to hope for?