[AusNOG] Pics of Google's DCs finally,.

[Sean K. Finn]

Hahaha,

I deliberately didn't post a post I was going to post on the premise that that might happen..

Specifically the difference between display of their  load-balancers and object caches / ob / Beefy-ram-cache servers.

As an (unnamed) Google Acolyte once said to me, with pauses included for appropriate dramatic effect..

. 'I download the Internet.. Every Day.. Into Ram... And then I Index it..."

To me that translates into..

"FAT PIPES EVERYWHERES, DIRECT TO YOU IF WE HAVE TO AND YOU HAVE ENOUGH CONTENT, I HAVE SERVERS THAT PXE-BOOT and have 512GB - 1TB RAM PER MAINBOARD, AND ONE OF THOSE FOR EVERY LETTER OF THE ALPHABET, AND THEN SOME MORE FOR COMMON WORDS, WITH BEEFY LOAD BALANCERS IN FRONT THAT KNOW WHERE LETTER COMBINATIONS ARE STORED".

The pics seem to reinforce my unenlightened and self formed belief of their architecture.

Cant be THAT much of a secret to outsiders?

Personally, I love the dangling rip-cords that cut power to the pod of racks you are standing in front of, just-in-case you need a local power-stop without having a big-red-button.

S.


-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Fort
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 8:47 AM
To: Sam Silvester
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Pics of Google's DCs finally,.

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Andrew Fort <afort at choqolat.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Sam Silvester <sam.silvester at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Sean K. Finn 
>> <sean.finn at ozservers.com.au> wrote:
>>> Where the Internet lives:
>>>
>>
>> ...and Street View as well
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=avP5d16wEp0
>> _______________________________________________
>
> If you look around those racks closely, you can see some Force10s 
> chassis, apparently machine cluster routers. I wonder how old these 
> pictures are. :)
>

And what do you know!? Looks like they removed the hi-res photographs.
 I can no longer make out "cr02.qw", nor other things I read yesterday ;-).

-a
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