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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 25/06/2015 10:27, Dale wrote: |
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>> Do we even have a clue how many puters Google has now? I read several |
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>> years ago it was like 10,000 or so. No telling what they have now. o_O |
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> Around 2006, it was at least 100,000 |
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> You are out by an order of magnitude :-) |
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> I would not be surprised if today Google had 5 million custom-built |
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> stripped-down motherboards in production. Google long ago moved past the |
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> idea of "having individual computers". By all accounts they have many |
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> large systems, and those systems are made up of lots of small parts - |
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> each part being a thing with CPU/RAM/disks and whatever. |
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I bet that with the volume they buy, they can have their mobos custom |
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made. I need to google and see if I can even find a picture of what |
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they use now. I'm curious. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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