"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1280 processors - U. of Illinois' "Turing Cluster" used for a range of academic research and replacing a Dell/HP Linux cluster
UCLA's "Dawson" used for plasma physics research - 256 processors