Comments on: How many Google machines

By: Modular by Design - Software

Modular by Design - Software — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:15:08 +0000

[...] of building very large machines. Similarly, one of the largest web-based application, Google, uses tens of thousands of machines which interact with each other as a single [...]

By: Google Accelerates Search

Google Accelerates Search — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:56:22 +0000

[...] the other hand, they could look at increasing the number of crawlers they are using. We know that Google has a lot of machines but trying to scale to the point where they can monitor a trillion pages via crawl would require a [...]

By: Getting There - Gerald R. Lucas, Ph.D.

Getting There - Gerald R. Lucas, Ph.D. — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:18:59 +0000

[...] Google, but I also want to get as far away from the server admin business as possible. I figure Google’s servers should provide me with plenty of data security. Plus, I’ve been annoyed with iPowerWeb for [...]

By: portaleco

portaleco — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:19:25 +0000

Quite interesting. However, Google will certainly not buy all machines. Some or even a large part of the equipment may be leased. A modern INTEL x86 has in the range of 10 MFlops. My estimate would yield about 1300 Teraflops being installed in the new Google data center in The Dalles, Oregon. Thus consumers are driving the IT world and not national agencies with their super computers any more. There is an analogous story for data. A couple of years ago one of the largest insurance companies in the world was struggling with 3 Terabytes of data in their data center. Today you can find that capacity installed in many living rooms.

By: Google-plex moves toward world domination » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work

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By: Random Thoughts

Random Thoughts — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

The hippocampus keeps strengthening the associations among these new elements until, after a while, it no longer needs to do so. The cortex will have learned to associate these various properties itself to reconstruct what we call a memory. Soooo??? What is the power of google supercomputer? Do you see any connection? Consider the current working model of google … google introduced a revolutionary system into search engines … that propelled google to the number one position in search business …

By: Earthshine

Earthshine — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

for my professional site and my portfolio, but I thought Blogger would work better for my blog. Part of my descision stems from my current love affair with Google, but I also want to get as far away from the server admin business as possible. I figure Google’s servers should prvide me with plenty of data security. Plus, I’ve been annoyed with iPowerWeb for sometime now. I plan to keep earthshine.org, but Autumn and I might be ditching autumnjerry.net in favor of another Blogger site

By: AlterSlash ~ the unofficial SlashDot digest

AlterSlash ~ the unofficial SlashDot digest — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Google – by celardore (Score: 5, Interesting) Thread There doesnâ€™t seem to be any mention of the GoogleNet. While it may not be used for figuring out sums and what-not, it does have an estimated 126 terraflops of computing power. Iâ€™d say thatâ€™s notable. I bet at least half those terraflops are devoted to advertising aswell. how many arenâ€™t listed? – by rritterson (Score: 5, Interesting) Thread How well does this represent the real top 500?

By: globeandmail.com : Geekwatch

globeandmail.com : Geekwatch — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

how big is the Googleplex? The Times says the number of servers the company is currently operating at its 25 locations around the world is in the 450,000 range. That figure has more than quadrupled since 2004, when Google’s server operation was alreadyestimated to be one of the world’s most powerful distributed supercomputers – rivalling anything that NASA or the NSA have. Based on estimates of the power that half a million servers would consume, that means Google’s electricity bill is likely somewhere between

By: danvk.org

danvk.org — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

(and most generalizations of FLT have been), then a computer search may have a chance of coming up with the counterexample. Peter Norvig did an initial hunt but came up empty. I extended his results, and also came up empty. Now that I have access to lots of machines, Iâ€™d like to extend the search a bit further. The old article I wrote is still valid, though it contains a misstatement thatâ€™s made all the more embarrassing by being in ALL CAPS. Iâ€™ll be lazy and leave it as one of those pesky