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posted by [personal profile] sbisson at 09:44pm on 14/04/2008 under ,
This is what makes Google tick

Would you build a world-beating business out of servers like this? They're motherboards stuck on thin sheets of fibreboard, shoved into a rack, and hooked together with piles of ethernet. No cases, no additional cooling, and hard disks bolted onto yet more fibreboard. If one dies (and it will), you just move its load onto another...

This is what makes Google tick

Google did. This is one of the original server racks, now on display in the Computer History Museum.
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posted by [identity profile] alexmc.livejournal.com at 12:12pm on 15/04/2008
Actually for me this was one of the most impressive things that Google did. When I first heard about it I wondered how I could do something similar. Why have a rack with 1u cases (or 1u back to back cases) when you can just stick motherboards in. It is somewhat like a low tech blade server - except it works and is cheaper.

I'd love to see more photos of how they created those hard disk shelves and how they did the power supplies.

I note that these look like Pentium IIs on expansion cards - because the fan blows horizontally and not vertically like most CPU fans nowadays
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posted by [identity profile] alexmc.livejournal.com at 12:13pm on 15/04/2008
And shockingly enough.... they actually had to put network cards in - they didnt have them on the motherboards!
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posted by [identity profile] marypcb.livejournal.com at 07:56pm on 15/04/2008
works for values of you don't care how many fail. they had major cooling problems and no longer do it like this. you need a revenue stream that allows you to replace as many as you need and an OS that distributes your apps and works around hardware failure.
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posted by [personal profile] beermat at 12:19am on 16/04/2008
slot 1 processors.
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