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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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