Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 25/06/2015 10:27, Dale wrote: >> >> >> Do we even have a clue how many puters Google has now? I read several >> years ago it was like 10,000 or so. No telling what they have now. o_O > Around 2006, it was at least 100,000 > > You are out by an order of magnitude :-) > > I would not be surprised if today Google had 5 million custom-built > stripped-down motherboards in production. Google long ago moved past the > idea of "having individual computers". By all accounts they have many > large systems, and those systems are made up of lots of small parts - > each part being a thing with CPU/RAM/disks and whatever. > >
I bet that with the volume they buy, they can have their mobos custom made. I need to google and see if I can even find a picture of what they use now. I'm curious. Dale :-) :-)
