If you're a researcher in the US, you can access a 32Tb version of one of these boxes (PSC Blacklight) through NSF XSEDE. (And it's surprisingly easy to apply

If you're a researcher in the US, you can access a 32Tb version of one of these boxes (PSC Blacklight) through NSF XSEDE. (And it's surprisingly easy to apply and get an allocation! We used it to do some de novo transcriptome assembly when we couldn't find a big enough machine locally)