How Many Google Machines, Really? 476
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.
Nice Rack! (Score:4, Funny)
Can you imagine (Score:4, Funny)
Google, will you marry me? (Score:5, Funny)
2) google is worth so much money
3) google has a huge rack!!
Why do we care? (Score:4, Funny)
At $699 per CPU (Score:5, Funny)
What a waste (Score:3, Funny)
I hang around too many old-timer mainframe geeks. MVS forever!!! and such.
All that power (Score:5, Funny)
Really? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Assumptions? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What is that as a percentage ... (Score:5, Funny)
Power (Score:3, Funny)
Someone call the FBI (Score:5, Funny)
I know, I know! (Score:1, Funny)
>where do you go to buy 80,000 hard drives?
You call IBM.
I heard they have a large amount of 75GXP drives ready to rock'n'roll[0]!
(fineprint)[0] Raid-1 capable interface not included.
Re:Google, will you marry me? (Score:5, Funny)
Love,
Yahoo.
Re:Can you imagine (Score:5, Funny)
Re:At $699 per CPU (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Why do we care? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Google, will you marry me? (Score:4, Funny)
hardcore (Score:5, Funny)
42.
Re:Cheap hardware (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Heat (Score:5, Funny)
<sound of door slamming>
<sound of car engine starting>
<sound of tires squeeling away>
Re:Ask (Score:3, Funny)
Say, Jeeves old boy: how many servers does Google have?
Jeeves: Piss off!
Re:15 Megawatts (Score:5, Funny)
We're on to you, Google!
I'm more interested.. (Score:5, Funny)
Better yet, open up a nursery (plant type) next door , build a green house, and piple 25% of the heat to it. Have you guys see the price of trees lately? Google could make a killing with the "recycling" plant.
Re:Pretty Broad (Score:4, Funny)
Your wife has slept with 80 other men, or was it 200?
Either way, it's not good for you.
Re:The things you could do with that... (Score:3, Funny)
What about building a really big search engine?
To build a really big search engine, your going to need some serious distributed computing, and a big database! Hey wait a minute thats what they are doing!
Re:Google, will you marry me? (Score:3, Funny)
False advertising. (Score:5, Funny)
Environmental impact: power to 68,000 homes (Score:3, Funny)
The 1,100 Apple cluster at Virginia tech uses 3 megawatts, sufficient to power 1,500 Virgina homes
http://www.research.vt.edu/resmag/2004resmag/HowX
Yes, it is true: every time you hit Google, you are polluting the Earth.
Re:Mirror , just in case (Score:1, Funny)
Re:What is that as a percentage ... (Score:3, Funny)
0.0001%
* of servers in the USA
0.00000045%
So there are 222 times as many servers in the United States as in the entire world, and there are 1.96e13 servers in the USA. Too bad there isn't a "-1 bad arithmetic" moderation....
Google Jokes (Score:1, Funny)
- Don't worry, I've got your backup.
Why did the Goggle machine cross the road?
- To get to the other cluster.
Re:15 Megawatts (Score:3, Funny)
The servers could be powered by 15 Megahamsters on treadmills (@ 1 watt/hamster). But that would require sufficient management to motivate the hamsters with the threat of off-shoring their jobs.
Re:Come on! Does it really matter? (Score:5, Funny)
Well, that depends on what sort of time portal they use. Now, a T1000 would probably be saturated by a time portal following the Terminator rules: one way only. But Google seems to favour Back to the Future rules, as shown by number of hits:
13,500,000 for back to the future
3,460,000 for terminator
This would make saturating a T1000 a lot easier, since you could saturate it while travelling back in time yourself, or maybe even while standing still in time. This would make Google's bandwidth infinite, as a measly T1000 would stand still. Unless it was using its own time portal to travel back in time to destroy Google, but that would create a paradox, since, as we all know, Google will become Skynet, which will create the T1000 in the first place.
What I'm trying to say is: I don't know, but I'm sure Google could do it.
Corrected version - Re:I have seen the light (Score:2, Funny)
Geez dude, go back to school and learn how to punctuate properly and the proper use of there/they're/their. I'm not a grammer/spelling nazi. Even though mistakes annoy the shit out of me, I usually let it pass. I know I make the occasional mistake myself. But your post was just too much.
I don't know why I'm doing this, but here's a corrected version of your post:
Re:Heat (Score:5, Funny)
"I'm meeeelllllttttiinnnnnggggg"
Bob.
Re:Heat (Score:3, Funny)
Now, where's my Delorean?
Cheers!
Hey (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Corrected version - Re:I have seen the light (Score:5, Funny)
Obviously.
google is starting to resemble... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Google, will you marry me? (Score:2, Funny)
just send it through your gmail...
and you will also get a few adds about rings and flowers to go with that...
Mads
Interesting list... (Score:5, Funny)
Wait, what's wrong with that one?
Re:Not to sound like your Mom [or Señor Ashcr (Score:4, Funny)
Re: Did you factor in screws and cable? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I'm more interested.. (Score:4, Funny)
I guess that's one way to solve the homeless problem.
Re:What is that as a percentage ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This is actually useful (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Corrected version - Re:I have seen the light (Score:4, Funny)
Obviously.
I'm not a grammer/spelling Nazi.
Obviously.
Re:15 Megawatts (Score:5, Funny)
Hm... Google seems decidedly male to me.
1) Answers questions rapidly without offering any description of how the answer was derived? Check.
2) Works in short, fast bursts of energy and then tells you proudly it only took them .009 seconds? Check
3) Has an inability to accessorize his appearance? Check.
4) Returns 82,200,000 results when asked about porn? Check and match!
Re:Can you imagine (Score:1, Funny)
profit!
Re:What is that as a percentage ... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I'm more interested.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I'm more interested.. (Score:3, Funny)
Google could corner the geek pothad market with their revolutionary "plant ranking" engine, and the power consumption from the grow lamps can be easily hidden in Google's normal power bill, too.
Re:$278k ?? (Score:3, Funny)
They clearly had to put an end to that practice once they reached their first 10,000 machines or so. Have you looked at the price of Legos lately?
Re:What is that as a percentage ... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Corrected version - Re:I have seen the light (Score:3, Funny)
Did you mean: grammar