11-19-2005, 02:00 PM
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Sam Walton Taught Google More About How to Dominate the Internet Than Microsoft Ever Did
"So why buy-up all that fiber, then? The probable answer lies in one of Google's underground parking garages in Mountain View. There, in a secret area off-limits even to regular GoogleFolk, is a shipping container. But it isn't just any shipping container. This shipping container is a prototype data center. 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."
Another thought-provoking article from Robert X. Cringely. Will it come to pass? Who knows - but what I do know is that despite all of Microsoft's best efforts, they're always several steps behind Google when it comes to Web-based applications and services.
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11-19-2005, 05:22 PM
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Interesting article...
Someone said in an email to me this week that Google is the Matrix. I'm starting to believe it.
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11-19-2005, 06:58 PM
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Re: Sam Walton Taught Google More About How to Dominate the Internet Than Microsoft Ever Did
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
...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.
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I'm not sure Google is so far ahead of Microsoft on this one. 20-40 foot box crammed full of CPUs and stuff? That sounds a lot like an Xbox 360! :lol:
Sorry, I know the "xbox is huge" jokes are so 3 years ago, but I just couldn't resist...
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11-19-2005, 07:04 PM
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Makes perfect sense. If you are going to start offering up more bandwidth intensive content (Google Earth, Google Video, etc.) you need a pretty good pipe. P2P has shown that distributed content downloads are a very viable way of doing things as long as most of the senders have a nice phat pipe to play with. Google is probably doing this. They are preping an infrastructure for future apps.
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11-19-2005, 07:14 PM
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One word: WOW :werenotworthy:
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11-20-2005, 02:28 AM
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Isn't it "petrabytes"? I could be wrong...
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11-20-2005, 02:32 AM
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