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  • MASSIVE scale of servers pt. 2

    From groovee@cyberdude.com@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 18 04:13:51 2020
    Hi,
    Regarding my previous message here on this subject, Grant Taylor had said: "There is a LOT of magic secret sauce that Google uses to do that.
    Sorry, I'm not at liberty to describe any of it."

    Is it *custom hardware*? :) That's all I need to know.... :) Surely they didn't have that back in '98 when they started? :)

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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to groovee@cyberdude.com on Wed Mar 18 18:53:12 2020
    On 3/18/20 5:13 AM, groovee@cyberdude.com wrote:
    Hi,

    Hi,

    Is it *custom hardware*? :) That's all I need to know.... :) Surely
    they didn't have that back in '98 when they started? :)

    What is custom hardware?

    Is a Linux box that you build from parts and and run a customized
    distribution custom hardware?

    I think that it's fairly well known that Google does have a lot of
    custom servers. They are used for a lot of different things. Again, I
    can't be more specific.

    If a custom build with a tweaked distro counts, then sure, that's
    exactly what they had in '98.



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  • From groovee@cyberdude.com@21:1/5 to Grant Taylor on Fri Mar 20 10:24:25 2020
    On Thursday, 19 March 2020 06:23:11 UTC+5:30, Grant Taylor wrote:


    What is custom hardware?

    Is a Linux box that you build from parts and and run a customized distribution custom hardware?

    No, custom ELECTRONICS. Like, ONE router which can answer all the WORLD's requests which has ten MILLION output ports on the other side to which ten million servers can be connected. (ones in other geographical areas will just need a *wire* that long...)

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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to groovee@cyberdude.com on Fri Mar 20 17:43:41 2020
    On 3/20/20 11:24 AM, groovee@cyberdude.com wrote:
    No, custom ELECTRONICS. Like, ONE router which can answer all the
    WORLD's requests which has ten MILLION output ports on the other
    side to which ten million servers can be connected. (ones in other geographical areas will just need a *wire* that long...)

    I can tell you for certain that Google is not using any such router.



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