By the way, a lot of this is already available in the "System Requirements".
https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/viewTopic.do?shortName=minimumreq

What would be nice is some measurement of the I/O requirements, since that affects SSD life (or HDD performance) if the writes are too high. Also, it has been noted on some projects (including this one) that running too many work units at a time can reduce overall performance. It would be helpful to gather those experiences in one place, so that new users don't have to go around searching for that information, especially if something goes wrong in operation.