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Sunday June 01, 2008 Google spotlights data center inner workings
CNET brings us this story that peels back the curtain on Google's secretive datacenters:
"Google doesn't reveal exactly how many servers it has, but I'd estimate it's easily in the hundreds of thousands. It puts 40 servers in each rack, Dean said, and by one reckoning, Google has 36 data centers across the globe. With 150 racks per data center, that would mean Google has more than 200,000 servers, and I'd guess it's far beyond that and growing every day." Full Story
Posted by Rich Brueckner [root] ( June 01, 2008 05:00 AM ) Permalink Comments [1]Post a Comment:
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There's a fascination with Google's server installations.
The problem, is that Google's server arrangement only lends itself to certain application types. I find it very hard to believe that you could reuse the infrastructure for computational type applications, without hugely affecting the current run-time dynamic of the system. To that extent, and excepting the applications it's **good** at, but how is this good for anything else (such as heavy computation?).
Even if you go 'cloud', the framework required would be stunningly complex. Also, for computational apps you'd need C/C++ (or at a VERY minimum Java). Such vendor's (Google, Microsoft, etc) are unlikely to support these -- as it could destroy the efficiency of the design. Though, it will be interesting to see if/how MS supports .NET.
How can models such as Google's become general purpose? It strikes me (and I'm not zealot here) that Sun's Compute Grid seems a more practical arrangement.
What is interesting, is having to think about how you'd package data + handle results for cloud execution.
Comments?
Sean
Posted by Sean Donovan on June 06, 2008 at 08:45 AM PDT #