Google world domination
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:12 am
Over dinner the other night some friends were interested in this story I had, they read this forum so I figure I would post the link.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051117.html
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051117.html
Google hired a pair of very bright industrial designers to figure out how to cram the greatest number of CPUs, the most storage, memory and power support into a 20- or 40-foot box. We're talking about 5000 Opteron processors and 3.5 petabytes of disk storage that can be dropped-off overnight by a tractor-trailer rig. The idea is to plant one of these puppies anywhere Google owns access to fiber, basically turning the entire Internet into a giant processing and storage grid.