| System Chassis | Custom i9-14900K Water-Cooled Rig |
| Processor / CPU | Intel® Core™ i9-14900K @ 6.0 GHz (32 vCPUs) |
| Empirical RAM Modules | 2x 48GB DDR5 Sticks (96 GB Total / 90GB 1GB HP) |
| Storage Array | 1.8TB Samsung 870 EVO SSD + 1.0TB NVMe 9100 PRO |
| NIC Brand & Model | Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X520-2 (Dual 10G) |
| Transparent Huge Pages | DISABLED (never) — Eliminates khugepaged stutters |
| PTP Hardware Clock | LEADER GRANDMASTER (--) |
| System Chassis | Dell PowerEdge R630 Enterprise Server |
| Empirical RAM Modules | 8x 16GB DDR4 ECC Sticks (128 GB Total / 120GB 1GB HP) |
| NUMA Node 0 (Active) | CPU 0 + 4x 16GB RAM + PERC H730 RAID + 10G NIC Attached |
| NUMA Node 1 (Secondary) | CPU 1 + 4x 16GB RAM (NO NIC / NO STORAGE ATTACHED) |
| UPI Interconnect Bus | High-Speed Dual 9.6 GT/s Interconnect Link |
| rNDC NIC Card | Dell Ethernet 10G Dual-Port SFP+ rNDC [1028:1f72] |
| Transparent Huge Pages | DISABLED (never) — Eliminates khugepaged stutters |
| PTP Hardware Clock | FOLLOWER LOCKED (< --) |