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Google's dark designs
Posted by: Hooz on: 11/21/2005 12:05 AM [ Print | 4 comment(s) ]
Why has Google been buying so much dark (i.e., unused) fiber? According to Robert Cringely:
Read on...
| The probable answer lies in one of Google's underground parking garages in Mountain View. There, in a secret area off-limits even to regular GoogleFolk, is a shipping container. But it isn't just any shipping container. |
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terminalrecluse is home now Posts: 3802 Joined: 2004-08-07 |
#38401 Posted on: 11/21/2005 02:54 AM
Go for it Google! I think this is amazing. I don't remember the exact number but during the Enron days, they [Enron] laid like tons of fiber (now dark) in Portland, Oregon alone. Perhaps The Google Internet will be Internet 2.0. 121 total Ghz, 304GB in total memory... Arch Linux - stable : 3930k @ 4.4Ghz, 64GB DDR3, 120GB Samsung 840, HX850 DAS - Norco 4020 - 20x Seagate 3TB, 1KW PSU FBSD 10 ZFS server - SM Chassis, SM X8DTE, 2x L5520 Xeons, 48GB Reg DDR3 ULP, IBM 5015 w/ 512MB DDR2 cache, RAID-50 - 42TB storage Dell C6100 - 4 nodes, 2 1.1KW psu's, 2x L5520s, 6x e5530s, 192GB reg DDR3 (48GB each), F@H, etc |
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Richard H Registered User Posts: 244 Joined: 2002-06-17 |
#38402 Posted on: 11/21/2005 06:02 AM
I think it is horrible. Caching all your personal information. GMail and GNet too much snooping. Do you really want google to know everything you do on the internet and cache all the information? K7D MASTER-L latest/last REV, Dual 1900+, Mircron orginal 512 reg/ecc, ati 9800 non pro--> pro bios, Enermax 550watt,1 x 120 gig 8mb drive, 1 x deathstar 40 gig |
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rmn oh my, it's huge! Posts: 6013 Joined: 2002-01-26 |
#38403 Posted on: 11/21/2005 01:27 PM
What makes you think they don't, already? 
P.S. - The idea of having 5000 CPUs in a single box sounds somewhat appealing. 
RMN ~~~ |
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eighteen_psi Now with more Gallatin! Posts: 152 Joined: 2003-05-01 |
#38405 Posted on: 11/21/2005 06:55 PM
5000 CPUs in a shipping container? Hmm. Regardless, go j00gle...glad I own stock  Dual 3.2 Gallatin, 4GB, Supermicro X5DA8 Dual 2400MP, 2.5GB, MSI K7D Master Quad 550/2MB, 2GB, Compaq 6400R Single 1.42 G4, 1GB, Apple Mac Mini ...among others, all folding. 25GHz+ |