BAD HARDWARE WEEK

To give you some perspective, that is probably about half of the aggregate IBM i processing capacity in the world.  

BAD HARDWARE WEEK: That price doesn't include the IBM i software licenses. Even at the modest $2,245 per core that IBM charges for the entry PS700 blade server (with 90 days of Software Maintenance), across those 349,440 cores you would be talking about another $1.5 billion for the operating system software and three years of maintenance. Call it $3 billion for 2 billion Commercial Performance Workload. 
On a balanced Power 775 superserver, that would be $24.8 billion for 2.1 billion CPWs just for the software, plus another $1.5 billion for the hardware. That's a truly stupid price--and it is exactly what Big Blue charges (at list price) for the IBM i software on its largest Power systems iron.I think it would be interesting to get IBM i running on these machines and turn it into an IBM iCloud.