Target audience including any prerequisites for taking advantage of the material:
Attendees should have basic experience installing and maintaining at least one open source operating system.

What attendees will learn--the knowledge or skill take-away attendees will have at the completion of the tutorial:
Attendees will walk away with a comprehensive overview of modern commodity hardware including performance, cost/benefit analysis, and several example hardware configurations presented as case studies. Some discussion of legacy hardware will be included for comparison purposes.