https://marco.org/2008/05/23/if-youre-curious-the-new-system-features-18-2x
If you’re curious, the new system features 18 2x quad-core 2.3 GHz webservers each with 8 gigs of RAM, and 4 quad-core 2.3 GHz databases with 16 gigs of RAM.
— What it takes to run Slashdot (via caseyliss).
I’d love to know what they need all of that power to do, exactly. That could host a significant portion of Wikipedia’s traffic…