I mean the former, their computer systems and esp. their huge
data centers ( here is a map of all Google data centers:
http://bit.ly/3i4UDw ).
If you have so many computers, you must have some form of monitoring
system, and ideally you have also some form of self-configurÃng and
self-healing system which repairs and optimizes itself. As you said, both
companies surely have redundancy features in their networks to achieve
fault-tolerance and robustness.
If I remember it correctly, some of your early papers were about
resourceful systems and fault tolerance, are they available somewhere?
-J.
----- Original Message -----
From: Russ Abbott
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Hello, FRIAM
Jochen,
You said that "Google or Amazon ... have self-healing, self-monitoring and
self-configuring systems." Would you elaborate on what you mean. Do you mean
their computer systems or Google and Amazon as corporations? If the former,
I'm sure they have redundancy features in their computing networks -- just
as the Internet itself has. What else are you thinking of?
-- Russ Abbott
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