The Design Of The Google File System

Freddles writes "This is an interesting paper (PDF) describing the design approach to Google's file system. The design had to take account of requirements for huge file sizes, a highly responsive infrastructure and an assumption that hardware components will always fail."

Comments

google groups mostly down all day

[peter303]

They could use a more robust file system then. It seems like postings within the past 48 have headers, but google dies when accessing the body.

Thank God

[Realistic_Dragon]

I handed in a research paper this morning on enterprise class distributed file systems.

If I had put it off until tomorrow, I would now be up in front of the proctors for plagarism - it's that similar to my idea.

Remember to hand in your work on time kids!

Re:Word processor?

[Samir Gupta]

We use LaTeX at Nintendo as well, and it seems to be the norm at most conferences I've been to, such as SIGGRAPH, SOSP, USENIX, VLDB, SIGARCH, SIGGAMES, etc. The only papers I've seen that don't really use LaTeX much are those from Microsoft Research -- no big surprise there. :)

Contrary to what some people think, we have a world-class research division, which I helped get off the ground, on a par with any top university or corporate lab, doing basic research in many fundamental fields that may see applications in our products 10-20 years down the road, including solid state physics, optics, algorithms, graphics, robotics, vision, compilers, cryptography, and more, and we have submitted numerous papers to prestigious conferences. But back to the topic, we use LaTeX at Nintendo as well for our papers... or at least I've been trying to get my co-workers to.*

(*Most Japanese tend to use localized M$ products because it's so much easier with the Windows IMEs. Since research is about collaboration with your peers around the world, I've been trying to get them to use LaTeX more in their papers, as well as use English in day to day work in the lab, so they can practice their speaking skills. Next up is for me to get them to stop bowing to me every time I tell them to do the simplest thing and shouting "Hai, Gupta-san!")