Gordon Fischer reflects: "According to Paul Strassmann's lecture, a standard Google Cluster contains 359 racks with 31654 machines.
He also mentions that there are ">12" data centers around the globe. Assuming each data center has at least one Google Cluster that means that Google is operating > 379848 individual machines.
Video of the lecture is also available at strassmann.com." http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/03/a_question_for.php#comments
See also: http://divedi.blogspot.com/2006/03/almost-400k-servers-at-google.html |