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Hey,I'm looking for some pics of the current Google servers (located at Moutain View), I don't need pics of Google Mini, etc like in the Google Store, neither do I need the old Google server pics (I've seen some around the web), but I'd like to see some recent pics..I think I've seen some not that long ago, but I can't find them anymore. Thanks.Hmmm that'd be interesting to see, not sure it exists though?hello,Google do not have servers. Instead they use clusters of desktop computers widespread on the globe. This make them very fast since there are almost clusters very close to you. On the other hand maintenance may be very hard since desktop pcs are very likely to have a HDD crash or powersupply problems etc.. but it's not our problems 
it is estimated that there may be about 100,000 desktop pcs that forms google. Upto 50 clusters with 2000 pcs in each cluster. I'm not sure if these information may be right, but that's what I read when i did some research about the giant search engine.. also there number of pcs are expected to increase with time.cheersPresleyI don't think that Google would allow photos of any of their data centers to be taken for any reason, ever. Heck, they won't even let the government past their "data lobby." Regarding your theory, jvpresley... I'm no expert on the subject, but 100,000 PC's sounds like a fantastic waste of good IT resources. I just read that Google has written it's own Linux distribution for internal use only. They also have access to hardware manufacturing capabilities (for their "for sale" rack-mountable search servers) so why would they go out and buy pc's to provide their back-end service? That would be like GM using black and decker drills from Lowe's instead of multi-million dollar robots in their assembly line. They have the development expertise, they have the cash, and they have the hardware. Why wouldn't they use it?Google has several clusters in various locations across the world. When an attempt to connect to Google is made, Google's DNS servers perform load balancing to allow the user to access Google's content most rapidly. This is done by sending the user the IP address of a cluster that is not under heavy load, and is geographically proximate to them. Each cluster has a few thousand servers, and upon connection to a cluster further load balancing is performed by hardware in the cluster, in order to send the queries to the least loaded Google Web Server.Racks are custom-made and contain 40 to 80 servers (20 to 40 1U servers on either side), new servers are 2U Rackmount systems. Each rack has a hub. Servers are connected via a 100 Mbit/s Ethernet link to the local hub. Hubs are connected to core gigabit hub using one or two gigabits uplinks.more info : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platformgdhanasekar wrote:I work for a company which colocates servers in a datacenter in which google colocates about 65% of that datacenters floor space (and its a Large datacenter). Based on my findings, part of google's googlebot resides there. They probably have 8-10 thousand servers in that datacenter alone. Of course photography is not allowed, but for some reason I seem to have several pictures of google's rack's on my computer... Pictures don't do it justice though, its just cool to see in real life. The machines are relatively quiet, but they produce a lot of heat. I've got to go to work, if I get time today I will post a couple pics...
it is estimated that there may be about 100,000 desktop pcs that forms google. Upto 50 clusters with 2000 pcs in each cluster. I'm not sure if these information may be right, but that's what I read when i did some research about the giant search engine.. also there number of pcs are expected to increase with time.cheersPresleyI don't think that Google would allow photos of any of their data centers to be taken for any reason, ever. Heck, they won't even let the government past their "data lobby." Regarding your theory, jvpresley... I'm no expert on the subject, but 100,000 PC's sounds like a fantastic waste of good IT resources. I just read that Google has written it's own Linux distribution for internal use only. They also have access to hardware manufacturing capabilities (for their "for sale" rack-mountable search servers) so why would they go out and buy pc's to provide their back-end service? That would be like GM using black and decker drills from Lowe's instead of multi-million dollar robots in their assembly line. They have the development expertise, they have the cash, and they have the hardware. Why wouldn't they use it?Google has several clusters in various locations across the world. When an attempt to connect to Google is made, Google's DNS servers perform load balancing to allow the user to access Google's content most rapidly. This is done by sending the user the IP address of a cluster that is not under heavy load, and is geographically proximate to them. Each cluster has a few thousand servers, and upon connection to a cluster further load balancing is performed by hardware in the cluster, in order to send the queries to the least loaded Google Web Server.Racks are custom-made and contain 40 to 80 servers (20 to 40 1U servers on either side), new servers are 2U Rackmount systems. Each rack has a hub. Servers are connected via a 100 Mbit/s Ethernet link to the local hub. Hubs are connected to core gigabit hub using one or two gigabits uplinks.more info : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platformgdhanasekar wrote:I work for a company which colocates servers in a datacenter in which google colocates about 65% of that datacenters floor space (and its a Large datacenter). Based on my findings, part of google's googlebot resides there. They probably have 8-10 thousand servers in that datacenter alone. Of course photography is not allowed, but for some reason I seem to have several pictures of google's rack's on my computer... Pictures don't do it justice though, its just cool to see in real life. The machines are relatively quiet, but they produce a lot of heat. I've got to go to work, if I get time today I will post a couple pics...