To break the terabyte barrier for the Indy Minute Sort, the computer science researchers built a system made up of 52 computer nodes. Each node is a commodity s

To break the terabyte barrier for the Indy Minute Sort, the computer science researchers built a system made up of 52 computer nodes. Each node is a commodity server with two quad-core processors, 24 gigabytes (GB) memory and sixteen 500 GB disks — all inter-connected by a Cisco Nexus 5020 switch. That's some pretty impressive hardware. Must've been pretty fun. Not something just anyone gets to work on. :)