> Google has taken the last 10 years of systems software research out of > university labs, and built their own proprietary, production quality > system. What is this platform that Google is building? It's a distributed > computing platform that can manage web-scale datasets on 100,000 node > server clusters. It includes a petabyte, distributed, fault tolerant > filesystem, distributed RPC code, probably network shared memory and > process migration. And a datacenter management system which lets a handful > of ops engineers effectively run 100,000 servers. Any of these projects > could be the sole focus of a startup.
But it seems to be a very low-integrity system. See http://google.fergusons.dk/ -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.com +44 7785 302 803 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
