It has 16 real Xeon cores and insane* amounts of RAM and cache:
It also has the Aspeed AST2400 BMC so it’s possible to manage it remotely using freeipmi and (for the video console) Java.
* Insane literally — This machine has the same amount of L3 cache (40 MB) as was the size of my first hard disk.
Richard WM Jones 
Looks great! What are the specs?
Two sockets containing Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4, 64 GB of RAM, SSD, and some larger hard drives.
Now this is a powerful box 🙂 Just wondering how much is the total damage? 🙂
It was about £1800 from http://scan.co.uk
I’m curious how fast is it running risc-v qemu emulation on this server in comparison with real FPGA hardware with RISC-V loaded, especially Arty dev board. Thanks!
qemu-system-riscv is the fastest. Spike & FPGAs are not very fast. The limiting factor is that qemu TCG is not multithreaded (yet – coming to some emulated architectures in qemu 2.7), so you can only use a single physical core per VM.
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