How Many Google Machines, Really?

Posted by timothy on Sunday May 2, 2004 @05:02AM 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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Imagine by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-02 05:05 · Score: -1, Redundant

A beowulf cluster of ... oh, right.
Imagine.... by madaxe42 · 2004-05-02 05:06 · Score: -1, Redundant

Imagine a beowulf clu.... oh.
Re:More interested... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-02 05:08 · Score: -1, Redundant

RTFA
Imagine... by Infonaut · 2004-05-02 06:30 · Score: -1, Redundant

a Beowulf cluster of those!
Sorry, someone had to say it, just to get it out of the way.

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