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With all these companies reporting, anyone have the cheat sheet on the rankings of the size of the owned clusters by company? I suspect NSA is tops but we'll n
by rottyguy 13y ago
With all these companies reporting, anyone have the cheat sheet on the rankings of the size of the owned clusters by company? I suspect NSA is tops but we'll never know (just like claims that Putin is the richest man in the world :-)
- thrownaway2424 13y agoeyeroll You can lose the NSA's largest datacenter in a corner of any Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, or Apple datacenter. Even their OMG-gigantzor datacenter in Utah includes a mere 100k square feet of computer room floor area. Given government overhead and inefficiency, a 100k sq-ft NSA datacenter is probably the equivalent of a 10k sq-ft commercial datacenter. By comparison, one of Apple's datacenter buildings is over 300k sq-ft, and Apple is at best a minor also-ran in the datacenter business. The NSA's computing facilities are insignificant compared to commercial facilities.
- sbierwagen 13y agoThat's because the commercial facilities are doing all the heavy lifting for the NSA. Facebook does all the analysis, NSA gets the finished reports.
- mpyne 13y agoYou realize NSA has a lot more signals interception programs than just PRISM, right?