Saturday, March 04, 2006

Almost 400k servers at Google?

Keywords: Google, server farm, data center, Google platform

Gordon Fischer reflects:
"According to Paul Strassmann's lecture, a standard Google Cluster contains 359 racks with 31654 machines.

He also mentions that there are ">12" data centers around the globe. Assuming each data center has at least one Google Cluster that means that Google is operating > 379848 individual machines.

Video of the lecture is also available at strassmann.com."
Source: Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog

Video:
Google: Model for the Systems Architecture of the Future - Google Video
Strassmann - Google Video

Blogs:
200k+ servers at Google and growing - Geeking with Greg
The next polemic? - Dennis Howlett
Google: Parsing the $100 Billion Remark - Internet Outsider
Doom! Doom I say! - Yet Another Software Blog
Hardware as a service? - Vinnie Mirchandani
Not Done Googling after All... - West Coast Grid

See also:
Google - The World 2 Come

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