Comments on: Google spotlights data center inner workings

The search company grew a little less secretive at its Google I/O show, describing some particulars of its mammoth infrastructure of software and hardware.

[divisionbyzero]

"It wants to be able to move jobs from one data center to another--automatically, at that."

Maybe that's what they are doing with all of that dark fiber? They'd need a high speed, low latency, dedicated link to ensure the data traveled quickly enough to be useful.

[bandman614]

That would be an excellent use for it.

I have enough trouble keeping filesystems in sync across a 40 mile dedicated pipe. I can't imagine trying to keep petabytes in sync across continents.

Maybe they're using better electrons than we are?

[mukindoggy]

Latest news:

Google has 36 data centers across the globe.

52 in Mars

12 in Moon

True universal linking. Phoenix over to you...

[Jamie_Foster]

How come this geezer dresses in cheap $5 polyester shirts? He probably thinks he's cool.

[bandman614]

That geezer can probably buy you and the building you're sitting in without blinking. I'd not give him a hard time about his shirts ;-)

[Fil0403]

Because idiots like bandman614 find him cool and are scared of him. He probably learned it from Steve Jobs. They probably find themselves cool for dressing like **** and always the same.

[johnsin]

I'm too sexy for your Blade, too sexy for your Blade. You won't see no Blade Servers here ba-by.. Yah!

[dbrawders]

by essentially placing a cover around each 40 server rack, it's essentially making the servers "blades" themselves and the rack the chasis.. they can probably better channel the airflow, etc that way as well... although I understand the reasoning behind twice as much hw that's half as reliable, well it sounds like a typical dev shop.. throw HW at the problem vs. solving the problem.. i know it doesn't quite fit here, but just rings very familiar to me...

pretty wild stuff.

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[Fil0403]

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[notthe600]

Phoenix this is Aurora. Google has created 7 new experimental data centers, and is now broadcasting them throughout the universe piggybacked on EM pulses. Over.

[hackertarget]

Blades are likely too expensive - those cut down no frills servers are really interesting - they probably source them directly from China / Taiwan.

So how do they cool those custom racks? In row coolers or massive air-con units blasting away.

Interesting article. :)

[thommym]

Looks like they need to go to Sun for some T5140 and they'll get 128 threads/RU. That's a _lot_ more than Intel can provide...

[Fil0403]

Interesting that Sun is where it is today, isn't it?

[Fil0403]

"Our view is it's better to have twice as much hardware that's not as reliable than half as much that's more reliable," Dean said.

IMHO this would be widely considered completely ignorant, stupid and wrong if it would come from any regular person (or from a Microsoft employee, of course).

[irvine_k]

"...a petabyte being a million gigabytes."

O_O did I miss something?

[jjpaul1234]

Their Reston location is actually on Business Center Dr., Reston, VA (http://tinyurl.com/6f6gwp). They have all their employees park around back to make the building appear empty.

[william0021]

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[sugumar_1975]

My guess is they have more than four hundred thousand systems. I am yet to completely understand thier MapReduce. a buddy told me about that some time ago. Very nice article with so much data about system and component failures. It is useful for me.

One interesting thing about Google is that they grow with same scale as internet grows. It is thier requirement! And they can do things that is internet wide. Search text, images, now 'share anything' is an other example. Google Rocks!

[benjaminstraight]

Unbelievable and inspirational, at the same time!

[william0021]

ya . Google has lots of data centers... i think it changes its ip address frequently......
don't u have any about that......
your contents are informative and useful..

[william0021]

ya . Google has lots of data centers... i think it changes its ip address frequently......
don't u have any about that......
your contents are informative and useful.
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[william0021]

ya . Google has lots of data centers... i think it changes its ip address frequently......
don't u have any about that......
your contents are informative and useful.
google has very large database...............william ( http://www.trustpharma.com )

[bradadad]

Maybe investing in more reliable hardware is a waste when you know you will need newer technology multicore machines asap. The life span of the cheaper system is in sync with the need for the updated hardware?