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May 31, 2008
Data Center technology inside Google : Wow
With more and more software deployed as services over the web, the infrastructure used to support it is becoming increasingly important, as a consequence data center technology is also gaining its fair share of attention. Google recently held an event showcasing some of the technology it uses in its data centers, from custom made circuit boards, custom made server racks to its own custom file system, its an impressive look at the backbone of what is probably the most scalable 'web application' on the Net.
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Entitled the 'Google I/O conference', in one of the talks at the event a research scientist talked about the custom server racks used to back the company's 36 data centers around the world, how they also use a custom made custom circuit board made by Intel, and are already well on their way to exploiting the multi-core processor architecture's that are common in the industry, even stating: 'Single-thread performance doesn't matter to us really at all...We have lots of parallelizable problems.', finishing off with a discussion on the software layer composed of the Google File System, BigTable, and the MapReduce [ See also ( Concurrent Programming : Getting a stronger language in Erlang , for more on the multi-core/concurrent programming issue ]
A very interesting read, not to mention how it is they apparently rely very little or in no way at all on the big vendors that supply most software and hardware to other data centers.
Article on the talk given by Jeff Dean : Google spotlights data center inner workings and a list of articles related to the event: At I/O, getting technical with Google
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Posted by Daniel at May 31, 2008 4:51 PM
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