[NEST Users] Hardware computing bottlenecks for NEST simulations

Dear colleagues, We are procuring a new small computing cluster on which we want to primarily run NEST simulations. Our models are medium in size (100s of thousands of neurons) but we run them for relatively long biological times (100s of seconds), so the network setup duration is mostly irrelevant for us. What we would like to ask is if there is any insight into the current NEST simulator in terms of what are the hardware bottlenecks of these types of simulations. Are we going to do better with investing into more cores or higher clock speeds or more cache, or faster RAM? I understand that this is a complex multi-factor optimization question, but any insights or links to existing material that would allow us to form an informed decision would be greatly appreciated. Best regards, Remy Cagnol.