Is a 64 core machine running Microsoft's Windows Server compatible with After Effects CC and other CC apps?

I'm trying to build an editing / render machine that has a 64 threaded cores which requires me to use windows server. Has anyone here ever try to run Creative Cloud on a Windows server 2012? Also, any opinions regarding effectiveness, compatibility, and thoughts about this set up is welcome, I would like to hear what you guys think. This station will primarily be used a render station and to edit 4k video through a fiber network.

Also, any opinions regarding effectiveness, compatibility, and thoughts about this set up is welcome, I would like to hear what you guys think.
Well, since you asked: Makes no sense. First off, Adobe desktop apps are generally not officially supported on any server operating systems. That doesn't mean they won't run, but there's no guarantees for anything. Second, if you wanted to use all the cores e.g. for MP rendering in AE, you'd only have 2 GB per core, which isn't much. You will run into all sorts of memory errors. Of course you can skew the balance by using less cores/ processors, but then you don't need 4 processors in the machine in the first place. Also currently AE's MP rendering only allows to use 32 processes at most, anyway. Still, even then the file I/O required to sustain all those 32 instances would probably kill your system. Third, and now we are getting to a point, due to how many things in AE work, limitations imposed by CoDecs and effects and a million other things you may end up never using more than 2 cores on a single processor and things feel like on an Amiga. And well, similar considerations would be true for AME, Premiere and whatever other tools/ programs. Sorry, but this is a highly fictional "What if...?" computer or an Edsel. The way they currently work, no Adobe app could ever feed this beast and exploit all the performance. In fact for 4K work in Premiere you may need a totally different graphics system like a Titan. You simply have things completely wrong and are solely focusing on processing power without seeing the bigger picture. You need to sit down and think it over.
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