How about unwrapping 500 servers from 500 boxes -- all at once? The IT administrators over at Purdue recently got the opportunity when they built the world's 40th fastest supercomputer in less than half a day using 500 Dell servers:

Each of Steele's nodes is a 1u server or takes up one rack mount slot, and supplies two Xeon processors, each using four-cores. That gives Steele a total of 6,496 cores, compared to predecessor Lear's 1,024 cores.

The 64-bit Xeon processors in Steele run at Intel (NSDQ: INTC)'s high end of 2.33 GHz. Each of the 812 servers is capable of having between 16 and 32 Gbytes of memory, according to the NSF site.

Apparently 500 computers also takes 6,000 pounds of packing material to safely make their way from supplier to administrator. All 6,000 pounds of styrofoam and cardboard will be recycled at Purdue. Read the full article here: http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/supercomputers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207601782. You can see some great pictures of the unwrapping party here:

http://www.informationweek.com/galleries/showImage.jhtml?galleryID=179&imageID=2&articleID=207601782

(A big thanks to community member Mike Maday who sent me this link!)