24 dezembro 2004

a mágica do google

Over four billion Web pages, each an average of 10KB, all fully indexed

Up to 2,000 PCs in a cluster

Over 30 clusters

104 interface languages including Klingon and Tagalog

One petabyte of data in a cluster -- so much that hard disk error rates of 10-15 begin to be a real issue

Sustained transfer rates of 2Gbps in a cluster

An expectation that two machines will fail every day in each of the larger clusters

No complete system failure since February 2000



PS. veja a matéria completa clicando no link. (em Inglês)