Scott Prater's workstation, at the University of Wisconsin - Madison:

 

ParameterPossible valuesNotes
Clustered?No 
Platform typePhysical 
Processing hardware8 coresIntel Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Operating systemRHEL6.4 Server, 64-bit 
Memory8GB

Run Fedora 4 webapp with healthy chunk of memory:

MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx2g -XX:MaxPermSize=1g"

Allocated storage650GB 
Persistence I/O214 MB/s 
Network I/Olocalhost