3 ms·
Articles like this are hilarious, especially for those of us that helped design, build and manage Google's datacenters at one point or another. First, the numb
by fourspace 15y ago
Articles like this are hilarious, especially for those of us that helped design, build and manage Google's datacenters at one point or another.
First, the number of servers may be impressive, but anyone that's done large scale computing can quickly point out that it's one of the least important measures. Much more important are how they are connected, the performance and ease of use of the distributed software infrastructure, resource utilization per machine, etc.
Second, these numbers are almost always wrong.
- mitchty 15y agoI just like the power requirement %. Knowing how much power some servers put out and their overall utilization would be more impressive stat-wise to me. I've seen far too many systems sit with a sub 1 load average that sucked up way too many watts of power needlessly. But you're 100% right about what matters is the overall application and its performance. The devil is in the details. At my job we only have 5ish k linux boxes, so an order of magnitude smaller. But still fun. Except the z-series nodes. /shudder