Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
Google runs on hundreds of thousands of servers—by one estimate, in
excess of 450,000—racked up in thousands of clusters in dozens of data
centers around the world.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#12 Google Architecture
... in somewhat similar vein
Grid Is 'It' at eBay
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1995124,00.asp
The dramatic growth and high exposure of eBay's Web presence make it a
rare example of a grid computing platform and application portfolio that
are well past the pilot-project stage.
... snip ...
and for a little drift
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13
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