The Possibilities...

Supermicro SC217 Chassis $919
Supermicro H8DGT Motherboard x4 $1700
AMD Opteron 6128 CPU x8 $2288
4GB DDR3-1333 ECC Registered RAM x32 $4256
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB x24 $3240

Total: $12,403

Okay, that's a lot of money, yes.

But what you get for that is a 64-processor server with 128GB of RAM and 12TB of disk with a 96GB non-volatile cache.

Which fits in 2U of rack space.

It actually has room for 48 CPUs and 512GB of RAM, but that would blow the price out to $33,555, which is a wee bit expensive.

There's also a version of the motherboard with built-in QDR Infiniband, but it costs twice as much.

Or this, for storage:

Supermicro 36-bay chassis with DP motherboard and RAID controller $2569
AMD Opteron 6128 CPU x2 $572
4GB DDR3-1333 ECC Registered RAM x8 $1104
Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB x36 $4140

Total: $8385

Or finally:

Supermicro 6-bay chassis with QP motherboard: $1993
AMD Opteron 6128 CPU x4 $1144
4GB DDR3-1333 ECC Registered RAM x32 $4256
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 1TB x6 $954

Total: $8347

I don't need 72TB of disk space, but I know someone who does.

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