(8) of the following bare metal machines are used as clients initiating requests to one of the regional endpoints. They are located off network with 100 Gbps uplink to the public internet.
Type
Count of nodes
CPU
Mem
Storage
Network
Type 1
4
64
2 TiB
4 x 6.4TiB NVMe
100 Gbps
Type 2
4
32
2 TiB
1 x 960GiB NVMe
100 Gbps
No special optimizations are made on the client OS.