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> They don't put a GPS receiver in every server, just a redundant cluster of them in each data center. Ok that’s what I figured. The way the media reported on
by erentz 9y ago
> They don't put a GPS receiver in every server, just a redundant cluster of them in each data center.
Ok that’s what I figured. The way the media reported on this the use of GPS as a time source was the special big deal. And I was trying to work out why because there was nothing novel in putting GPS time sources in data centers. (We did that at my first job not quite 2 decades ago...)