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How Many Google Machines, Really?
BoneThugND writes "I found this article on TNL.NET. It takes information from the S-1 Filing to reverse engineer how many machines Google has (hint: a lot more than 10,000).
'According to calculations by the IEE, in a paper about the Google cluster, a rack with 88 dual-CPU machines used to cost about $278,000. If you divide the $250 million figure from the S-1 filing by $278,000, you end up with a bit over 899 racks. Assuming that each rack holds 88 machines, you end up with 79,000 machines.'" An anonymous source claims
over 100,000.
No wonder I'm'a Googlin'
Here's what I do: Bitty Browser & Andromeda
Can you imagine a beowul.... oh.. wait..
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1) google is so pretty and smart
2) google is worth so much money
3) google has a huge rack!!
Seriously? What is the point of this article? What next? Linus found to prefer blue ink, over black ink?
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SCO now knows how big an invoice to send Google! :-D
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I hang around too many old-timer mainframe geeks. MVS forever!!! and such.
With all those TFlops, no wonder Google converts units so quickly.
You mean the PigeonRank(tm) technology is a hoax?
That's right, they probably got in on the "Buy 899 Get 1 Free" Sale. So in reality they have a nice even 900 racks. Makes much more sense that way.
Well, let's count. I have two servers at home and 8 at work. They all run linux. Now, if everyone else in the world joins this thread, we can find out.
This many computers must use quite a bit of power and they probbably also need some serious airconditioning. I sure wouldn't want to receive their electricity bill by mistake. :)
The number of machines Google uses is considered a trade secret. By attempting to determine how many machines they have, you're in violation of the DMCA. I'm calling the FBI.
>where do you go to buy 80,000 hard drives?
You call IBM.
I heard they have a large amount of 75GXP drives ready to rock'n'roll[0]!
(fineprint)[0] Raid-1 capable interface not included.
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Right, 12-15 per rack...they're smart enough to develop an amazing search engine, but not to understand proccessing power density issues...
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Google engineer reading your post: OH SHIT!
<sound of door slamming>
<sound of car engine starting>
<sound of tires squeeling away>
Or they could ask Jeeves:
Say, Jeeves old boy: how many servers does Google have?
Jeeves: Piss off!
According to Google herself dried wood contains 15.5 MJ of energy per kg. It seems that Google consumes about 1 kg of wood per second (if they've found a way to utilize 100% of the energy, which they of course have - they're Google, after all), and that the pigeons are just there to use their wings to dry the wood!
We're on to you, Google!
in how they recycle their gigantic heat output...perhaps move data center to the windy city, open up a homeless shelter next door, and put the hot air to good use for once. They might even get a tax break on this.
Better yet, open up a nursery (plant type) next door , build a green house, and piple 25% of the heat to it. Have you guys see the price of trees lately? Google could make a killing with the "recycling" plant.
Yeah it's kind of like:
Your wife has slept with 80 other men, or was it 200?
Either way, it's not good for you.
With that much computer power at their disposal they could do some cool things - maybe some sort of distributive computing thingie or big database of some kind.
What about building a really big search engine?
To build a really big search engine, your going to need some serious distributed computing, and a big database! Hey wait a minute thats what they are doing!
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They better have at least 10^100 machines, or they will be getting a call from my lawyers.
word.
Did anyone think of the electricity needed to power and cool 50,000 servers
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The 1,100 Apple cluster at Virginia tech uses 3 megawatts, sufficient to power 1,500 Virgina homes
http://www.research.vt.edu/resmag/2004resmag/HowX
Yes, it is true: every time you hit Google, you are polluting the Earth.
The next pasture is always greener
So tell me, do you have a script that automatically makes useless mirrors? How come we never see mirrors of things that actually get brought down?
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0.0001%
* of servers in the USA
0.00000045%
So there are 222 times as many servers in the United States as in the entire world, and there are 1.96e13 servers in the USA. Too bad there isn't a "-1 bad arithmetic" moderation....
What did one Google machine say to another Google machine?
- Don't worry, I've got your backup.
Why did the Goggle machine cross the road?
- To get to the other cluster.
The servers could be powered by 15 Megahamsters on treadmills (@ 1 watt/hamster). But that would require sufficient management to motivate the hamsters with the threat of off-shoring their jobs.
Well, that depends on what sort of time portal they use. Now, a T1000 would probably be saturated by a time portal following the Terminator rules: one way only. But Google seems to favour Back to the Future rules, as shown by number of hits:
13,500,000 for back to the future
3,460,000 for terminator
This would make saturating a T1000 a lot easier, since you could saturate it while travelling back in time yourself, or maybe even while standing still in time. This would make Google's bandwidth infinite, as a measly T1000 would stand still. Unless it was using its own time portal to travel back in time to destroy Google, but that would create a paradox, since, as we all know, Google will become Skynet, which will create the T1000 in the first place.
What I'm trying to say is: I don't know, but I'm sure Google could do it.
Geez dude, go back to school and learn how to punctuate properly and the proper use of there/they're/their. I'm not a grammer/spelling nazi. Even though mistakes annoy the shit out of me, I usually let it pass. I know I make the occasional mistake myself. But your post was just too much.
I don't know why I'm doing this, but here's a corrected version of your post:
More like a google engineer taking wet squelching footsteps to the door crying out,
"I'm meeeelllllttttiinnnnnggggg"
Bob.
Now, where's my Delorean?
Cheers!
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Google executives sir,mam,person, do you mind if you could lend me a few boxes?
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google is starting to resemble the wonka factory from willy wonka and the chocolate factory.
"Your phone company can't just lose a few calls you made and not bill you for them."
Wait, what's wrong with that one?
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NO they just use legos duh. Though I personally prfer duct tape
Nono, only those you have root access to. Post your pass as proof.
You almost have it right... first, a couple of hookers come to you. Then, a few hours later, they are followed by the sales director.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Hm... Google seems decidedly male to me.
1) Answers questions rapidly without offering any description of how the answer was derived? Check.
2) Works in short, fast bursts of energy and then tells you proudly it only took them .009 seconds? Check
3) Has an inability to accessorize his appearance? Check.
4) Returns 82,200,000 results when asked about porn? Check and match!
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They clearly had to put an end to that practice once they reached their first 10,000 machines or so. Have you looked at the price of Legos lately?
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
OK, it's 1-2-3-4-5 -- the same as my luggage!
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