I studied in the Computer Architecture department next to the BSC. After I graduated, I joined Google Dublin as an SRE in the Google File System (GFS). The firs

I studied in the Computer Architecture department next to the BSC. After I graduated, I joined Google Dublin as an SRE in the Google File System (GFS). The first fun team offsite we did after I joined (2010) was a trip to Barcelona, and the trip included a guided visit to the BSC. The visit (I had never visited it while a student!) was really cool because the BSC had a pretty design that Google data centers didn't yet have (remember how they took pride in using "crappier" hardware than "real" datacenters?). But the fun part of the story is when the tour guide was telling us how much attached storage they had (something like 400TB IIRC) and we were all thinking... "hah, that's cute!" Yeah well, cute... but infinitely lower latency than GFS had at that time. Anyhow, just a little fun moment I remember from that trip; don't read too much into it!