And I'll bet you they could do it cheaper with a single IBM mainframe than
thousands of PCs. The power savings alone would be tremendous. A 9672 G7
xSeries can run hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Linux images in
LPARs or under VM, all at speeds comparable to quick PCs.
Peace... Sridhar
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Dan Wright wrote:
> Nope, they use commodity PCs with FreeBSD. From http://www.google.com/technology/:
>
> "The speed you experience can be attributed in part to the efficiency of our
> search algorithm and partly to the thousands of low cost PC's we've networked
> together to create a superfast search engine."
Received on Tue Aug 14 2001 - 10:56:57 BST