And the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives already has sent a handful of agents to assist, according to Richard Coes, a spokesman for that agency.

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"He brings a toughness, a Boston street smarts mentality, a back-alley edge in a good sense ... a 'if you throw sand at me, I'm going to hit you in the nose' sense, " Coes said.

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Each node has 2-8 Xeon 5650 processors providing 6-48 coes and up to 768 GB of RAM, 1.3 TB of Fusion-io ioDrive PCIe flash cards and a mid-layer of up to 1.2 TB of Intel SSD storage.

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