minimum reqs are:
1.5~2x blockchain size of storage space
8+ Cores
1000MB/s read and 300MB/s sequential disk I/O
32GB RAM

With some pretty substantial VM re-allocation and re-partitioning, I've got one machine that _mostly_ meets that.
I presume the advantage of this is that you can throw any wallet or any private key at it and not have to wait to re-scan the blockchain to find any txs?