On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 11:26:34AM -0500, Karol Pietrzak wrote:
Google.com also runs on a cluster of thousands (IIRC, 3000) of PC's. The advantages of PC's and Linux are very evident and they complement each other. Both are cheap (monetary-wise), flexible, and powerful.
A minor correction. Just want to share information I have. As of July 2001, google ran 10,000 PCs spread over 4 co-locations, two on the Eastern coast, two on the Western coast. PC is an el-cheapo design (in google's sysadmin words) and the rate of failures is 52 PCs a day. They don't fix them, just replace and rebuild. This comes from my notes from BayLISA meeting of July 19, 2001 where Frank Cusack, system administrator at Google, made a presentation about Network and Machine Architecture at Google -Kastus