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  • From: "Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>
  • To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Google shopping in the Triangle?
  • Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:00:23 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Brown [mailto:gwbrown1 AT gmail.com]
> Or maybe they are here to pick up a bunch of gear from Cisco and turn
> the plane into a flying data center... :)
>
> Greg

Hahahhaa! There are rumors that they really are developing mobile data
centers:

"Google hired a pair of very bright industrial designers to figure out how
to cram the greatest number of CPUs, the most storage, memory and power
support into a 20- or 40-foot box. We're talking about 5000 Opteron
processors and 3.5 petabytes of disk storage that can be dropped-off
overnight by a tractor-trailer rig. The idea is to plant one of these
puppies anywhere Google owns access to fiber, basically turning the entire
Internet into a giant processing and storage grid."
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051117.html





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