Friday, December 03, 2004
Over four billion Web pages, each an average of 10KB, all fully indexed.
Up to 2,000 PCs in a cluster.
Over 30 clusters.
104 interface
languages including Klingon and Tagalog.
One petabyte of data in a cluster
-- so much that hard disk error rates of 10-15 begin to be a real issue.
Sustained transfer rates of 2Gbps in a cluster.
An expectation that two
machines will fail every day in each of the larger clusters.
No complete
system failure since February 2000. It is one of the largest computing projects
on the planet, arguably employing more computers than any other single, fully
managed system (we're not counting distributed computing projects here), some
200 computer science PhDs, and 600 other computer scientists.
Read more here
zdnet.com.au/insight/software/0,39023769,39168647,00.htm
2 Comments:
At 8:23 AM, Anonymous said…
mamma.com is waay better. sorry go cry in a corner and it will be all right.
At 9:08 PM, Anonymous said…
LOL, why don't you go cry to mamma.
Google is one of man's greatest achievements, and that's no BS.
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