Comment by techdragon

You may want to have a chat to IX Systems. They do a lot of pre ship 'white glove testing' which means they may have an opportunity to let you remotely borrow one before they run their shakedown testing battery.

For instance they built this 40 core / 80 logical thread monster. http://www.ixsystems.com/whats-new/megacore-freebsd-foundati...

And sell two 64 Core machines as part of their standard product lineup.

The Mercury - (AMD Opteron) - http://www.ixsystems.com/servers/families/?family=Mercury%20...

and

The Neptune - (Intel Xeon) - http://www.ixsystems.com/servers/families/?family=Neptune%20...