Guess what finally arrived in Stellenbosch ... the cluster they've been threatening to setup for the M&M Engineering projects, might be a good time to resume my search engine research, the only thing that was holding it back was memory and processing power, this machine has enough of both.
SPECS:
CPU: 168 Cores at 2.83GHz each
Memory: 336GB
I/O: 12.1TB
Power Idle: 5.6kW
Power Peak: 7.5kW

The machine is running Open MPI using SUSE (with Grid Engine) in order to harvest the full potential of the machine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMPIhttp://gridengine.sunsource.nethttp://www.open-mpi.orgFor the rest of the specs, see the attached PDF.