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  • From: Greg Cox <glcox AT pobox.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 16:13:44 -0500 (EST)

> "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.

obSlashdot: "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!"





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