It works fine on regular commodity hardware and doesn't have any particularly special requirements.
Using (relatively cheap) commodity hardware to run parallel programs was hugely exciting.
While the cluster was made with commodity hardware it still cost several thousand dollars a node.
Ceph is a software-based solution and runs on commodity hardware.
It supports the running of applications on large clusters of commodity hardware.
Clusters of commodity hardware are commonly being used to address Big Data problems.
It is designed to provide efficient, reliable access to data using large clusters of commodity hardware.
This would offer at least an order of magnitude better performance than systems based on "commodity" hardware.
The result is very low response times, which enable high throughput, even on commodity hardware.
These systems are commodity hardware with a customized, Linux-based software stack.