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Megawatts are indicative of compute load, not storage load. I can definitely believe that Google is doing more compute than NSA, but that sounds more like a dif
by a1369209993 6y ago
Megawatts are indicative of compute load, not storage load. I can definitely believe that Google is doing more compute than NSA, but that sounds more like a difference of need, not of ability.
- rossjudson 6y agoWhat do you think the query pipeline looks like? I can assure you that it's not mapping each query down to a single-sector disk read off an inverted index.
- a1369209993 6y ago? I think the query pipeline for NSA (relative to the scales of Google's query pipeline) looks like absense-of-query-pipeline. Hence NSA using less compute and thus (the reasoning goes) less power consumption.