But it seems to be a very low-integrity system. See http://google.fergusons.dk/
I ran this again this morning looking for the z890. The centre display was different
from the
others, listing a USA Today story in addition to what the others had.
--
Phil Payne
http://www.isham-research.com
Not directly on topic, but interesting validation of the horizontal
scalability approach to scaling infrastructure.
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian suresh at hserus.net
Subject: Interesting speculation on the tech behind gmail
http://blog.topix.net/archives/16.html
April 04, 2004
The Secret
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
But it seems to be a very low-integrity system. See
http://google.fergusons.dk/
True, but given the nature of the workload, it's probably not terribly
important that it be so. Also, if there is some intelligence distributed
into the network to do layer 7 caching, the ability to redrive requests
