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How Many Google Machines, Really?

Posted by timothy on from the measured-by-weight-not-by-volume dept.

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.

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  1. Obligatory comment by SILIZIUMM · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Of course, someone *will* say the obligatory "imagine a beowulf..." comment in this thread.

  2. Re:Pretty Broad by Ayaress · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or what they gave her. And I'm not talking about flowers.

  3. Re:Corrected version - Re:I have seen the light by Danny+Rathjens · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Why is it that people whining about spelling inevitably spell words incorrectly? For a detailed correction and a mod of 3, you also missed quite a bit.

    • grammer -> grammar
    • noname -> no-name
    • castor wheels -> casters (the castor mispelling is just about common enough to be proper(although m-w.com doesn't say so, and 'wheels' is redundant in either case)
    • 16 wheeler -> 18 wheeler
    • plug into -> plug in to
    • centre -> center (I'd let that one by if you had changed both instances, but using both spellings doesn't make sense.)
    • a days time -> a day's time
  4. Re:Corrected version - Re:I have seen the light by ponds · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Correcting your post:

    For some reason you bolded random words, they shouldn't be bolded. Please go back to school and learn acceptable use of bold.