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The number of CPU's is the number of cores. Of course if you can have different physical CPU's it would be better.
Be advised, the compute nodes need some horse power, because they handle all the hard work, so your best machines should be used as compute nodes.
Using a comodity pc in production will depend on what you'll be doing, how many instances will you be creating? What kind of hard work will the compute node be doing?
