This computing center is as big as two footbal fields and it has cooling towers four stories high. Whatever happened to distributed computing man, a giant computing center such as this on one location!!! Does it sound risky?
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/technology/14search.html
June 15, 2006 at 3:59 pm
People might not know that Google search engine is not only a bunch of software with sophisticated algorithms but also (and maybe mainly) a proprietary computer hardware system based on grid computing concept.
I recommend "The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media, and Technology Success of Our Time" by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed