[diyseguy]

Interesting that they aren't using commodity hardware. Is that a myth then? The farms of cheap linux boxes?

[jerdfelt]

These are farms of cheap Linux boxes.

They go out of their way to design and manufacture their own motherboards and equipment[1] to reduce their capital and operational expenses.

While the motherboard and enclosures are probably custom made, the components inside (CPU, memory, etc) are all "commodity".

[1] http://www.opencompute.org/