"As of Round 7, three Intel Sandy Bridge Core i7-2600K workstations with 8 GB memory each (early 2011 vintage) for the i7 tests; database server equipped with Samsung 840 Pro SSD
Two Amazon EC2 m1.large instances for the EC2 tests
Switched gigabit Ethernet"
So 8GB workstations. Even assuming full memory usage, the JVM, Go and C++ frameworks destroyed all comers.
"As of Round 7, three Intel Sandy Bridge Core i7-2600K workstations with 8 GB memory each (early 2011 vintage) for the i7 tests; database server equipped with Samsung 840 Pro SSD Two Amazon EC2 m1.large instances for the EC2 tests Switched gigabit Ethernet"
So 8GB workstations. Even assuming full memory usage, the JVM, Go and C++ frameworks destroyed all comers.