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.
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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.
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