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Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 21:16:38 -0500
From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 25/06/2015 10:27, Dale wrote:
>>
>>
>> Do we even have a clue how many puters Google has now?  I read several
>> years ago it was like 10,000 or so.  No telling what they have now.  o_O
> Around 2006, it was at least 100,000
>
> You are out by an order of magnitude :-)
>
> I would not be surprised if today Google had 5 million custom-built
> stripped-down motherboards in production. Google long ago moved past the
> idea of "having individual computers". By all accounts they have many
> large systems, and those systems are made up of lots of small parts -
> each part being a thing with CPU/RAM/disks and whatever.
>
>


I bet that with the volume they buy, they can have their mobos custom
made.  I need to google and see if I can even find a picture of what
they use now.  I'm curious.

Dale

:-)  :-)