Google Envisions 10 Million Servers 169
miller60 writes "Google never says how many servers are running in its data centers. But a recent presentation by a Google engineer shows that the company is preparing to manage as many as 10 million servers in the future. At this month's ACM conference on large-scale computing, Google's Jeff Dean said he's working on a storage and computation system called Spanner, which will automatically allocate resources across data centers, and be designed for a scale of 1 million to 10 million machines. One goal: to dynamically shift workloads to capture cheaper bandwidth and power. Dean's presentation (PDF) is online."
Re:The Internet isn't that big. (Score:3, Informative)
The entire content of the Internet fits in a 20x8x8 box operated by the Internet Archive.
The internet archive's dirty little secret is that it doesn't, in fact, store the entire enternet, as I found out trying to find Yello There a few years ago. There is only one page of Niel's site left, and that's the one I linked from the Springfield Fragfest. The Fragfest is there, but not all of it. I'd hazard a guess you won't find mcgrew.info or holy-bible.us there, either.
That's not to dismiss or demean what they have accomplished; it is certainly impressive. But it by no means stores the whole internet.
Re:In the far apocolyptic future (Score:2, Informative)
The short story is "The Feeling of Power" by Asimov.