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Google Pulling Back the Veil On Its Custom-Built Data Centers

Posted by samzenpus on from the show-and-tell dept.

jfruh writes: In the mid-'00s, as Google scaled up its data centers to meet increasing demand, "we could not buy, for any price, a data-center network that would meet the requirements of our distributed systems," says Amin Vahdat, the company's networking technical lead. So they had to build their own software-defined networks inside what were essentially vast warehouse-sized computers. And now the company is starting to tell the world how they did it.

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  1. And you all still don't need it by magamiako1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Right now there's a massive push for even the smallest web projects to be "cloud scale" to this degree. No, the crazy custom shit that Google does in their datacenter is not something you need in YOUR datacenter.

    1. Re:And you all still don't need it by haruchai · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Are those fiber links really from 2 independent providers? Where my company most needs redundancy, the fiber is owned & maintaned by a single provider and every one is a reseller.

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  2. Re:Screw this layout change by PIBM · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think you give them too much credits; they've been trying for years and haven't yet succeeded :)

  3. my other datacenter's a footlocker by ihtoit · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seriously. I'm building my new data warehouse inside a wooden footlocker. All I need is an ATX extender and to finish building the drive frames (for 8x3.5" drives, 12x2.5" drives and two DVD burners), and the back arm for the VESA mount for the monitor, then it all gets bolted together and fired up. It looks fuckin' sweet.

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  4. F-ing Slashdot by fox171171 · · Score: 4, Funny

    What the hell is with the stupid share thing? When I point at it, it looks like they are trying to tweet "F-ing"!

    1. Re:F-ing Slashdot by TheGratefulNet · · Score: 4, Insightful

      'share' is one thing I have filtered on ALL sites.

      'social' is another. if your url has that string in it, it gets to the dev/null device.

      I have zero patience for 'social networking' whores. it sucks I have to spend the first 5 minutes on any new site filtering and adding block entries to ABP and noscript but since its war, this is what we have to do to tame the (already messed up) internet.

      and if a site can't show its conent in the first few minutes of my configuring filters, I just leave and never come back.

      soon, slash will be that way for me. I've been here for a long time, but I can see it will end, probably this year.

      fuck you, dice. just fuck you. sad how it ends like this.

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  5. WTF??? by djbckr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why the fuck are you fucking around with the /. UI? Do you have to change things for change's sake? If it works, stop changing it!

  6. Please bring back "Read more" by itsenrique · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I promise I won't accidentally share a story over social media instead of clicking "Read more", no dice Dice.

  7. Custom built data centers by TheCreeep · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot also pulling back the veil on its crappy share buttons.

  8. Libraries of Congress by darkain · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So, how many Libraries of Congress is that anyways? ... oh wait ... the Google blog post (ya'know, the actual artist, not the article talking about the article which was linked from the summary) actually states!

    "Our current generation — Jupiter fabrics — can deliver more than 1 Petabit/sec of total bisection bandwidth. To put this in perspective, such capacity would be enough for 100,000 servers to exchange information at 10Gb/s each, enough to read the entire scanned contents of the Library of Congress in less than 1/10th of a second." = Source: http://googlecloudplatform.blo...