lakersfreak Franchise Player
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:18 pm Post subject: "Google is like the Borg," |
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On the banks of the windswept Columbia River, Google is working on a secret weapon in its quest to dominate the next generation of Internet computing.
But it is hard to keep a secret when it is as big as two football fields, with twin cooling towers protruding four stories into the sky.
The towers, looming like an information-age nuclear plant, mark the site of what may soon be one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, helping to supply the ever-greater horsepower needed to process billions of search queries a day and a growing repertory of other Internet services.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/13/business/search.php
Wow, they already have about 450,000 servers! |
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