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by ceequof 4035 days ago

  The fileserver tier consists of pairs of Dell R720s 
  running in active/standby configuration. Each pair is 
  largely similar to the single pair of machines that the 
  old Pages infrastructure ran on.
http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-r720/pd

Two Xeon E5-2600s per machine.

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The ES-2600 series comes in 4 to 12 cores, so that's still a pretty wide range of compute power.