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[Ronald Wiplinger <ronald@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sandy Drobic wrote:
> PerfectReign wrote:
> > I know this is way OT, but y'all might find it interesting.
> >
> > I was reading a few months back how Amazon distributes all their
> > systems. When you go to amazon's homepage, you are actually seeing the
> > result of several dozen different systems coming together.
> >
> > IIRC, they use any given OS (Linux, Unix, Wintendo) on any number of
> > low-end whitebox systems distributed throught the country to generate
> > data. They have well over 100,000 of these systems grouped together in
> > different data centers. Each system is replicated x times depending on
> > need to ensure reliable access.
> >
> > On any given day, they say up to 50 systems will fail. However,
> > because of the massive redundancy, there's no effect on the users.
> > They simply rip out the old system, put in a new one, run some sort of
> > Ghost application, and the new system is on the network.
>
> I think you are talking about Google, not Amazon. (^-^)
>
> Sandy
Have you already heard of the Internet achieve? There are 3 world wide 
centers with 1000s of computers each which exchange data permanently.

bye

Ronald