A long time ago I read that they did TCO studies, and found it less costly to buy lots of low cost hardware over buying fewer high cost systems.
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Yu Safin Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 12:39 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Google out of capacity? On 5/4/06, James Melin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does that remind anyone of the descriptions of the humongous vaccuum tube > driven machines that had techs walking through the innards and replacing > burnt out tubes? Seems Google has come full circle. > > > > > Joe Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: Linux on 390 Port > <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> > To > > LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > > cc > 05/04/2006 12:52 PM > > Subject > Re: > Google out of capacity? > Please respond to > Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> > > > > > > > > > On Thursday 04 May 2006 01:03 pm, Joseph Temple wrote: > > > Does anyone know how many of what class of servers are being used? Also, > > my guess is that some sort of hybrid might be the answer. That is some of > > the clusters may lend themselves to virtualization more than others, > > yielding variable leverage for different platforms. > > > I remember hearing that there are thousands (25k?) in the various computer > rooms, each one being a special design commodity item. Technicians walk > through the rooms with carts, removing failed servers and replacing them with > new ones. The old ones are just trashed - not worthy of an attempt to > repair. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > does naybody know if Google's qualified Planners are looking at the TCO (total cost of ownership) to justify 100k servers versus SUN/AIX/zOS/zVM solutions? or is it philosophical and their investors/board of directors want to show innovation as a way to increase capitalization? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
