pbs.org — Google hired a pair of very bright industrial designers to figure out how to cram the greatest number of CPUs, the most storage, memory and power support into a 20- or 40-foot box. We're talking about 5000 Opteron processors and 3.5 petabytes of disk storage that can be dropped-off overnight by a tractor-trailer rig.
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steal_apps01Nov 20, 2005
and hardcore geeks read slahdot
kinderstodNov 21, 2005
Of course Slashdot posted it, it's Google. The whole /. website and Moronbase sucks itself off each time Google farts, it's only natural that they already have it posted.
statictenNov 21, 2005
Game Over?????C'mon, where does Google get its revenue? And how much, i might add compared to Yahoo and Microsoft????I love the idea, but it's far from over........the money google is spending is the investor's money, they aren't really getting enough yet from ads....But yeah, pretty impressive concept that's about to become reality soon, I bet!
airioxNov 21, 2005
PBS LAWL! Like I would ever trust any biased crap that came fron that crackpot organization. Dumbasses think that Google, Microsoft and Wal-Mart are the anti-christs.
scootdownNov 21, 2005
Good read!Soon the Internet will be one big google computer and when we drive past one of these containers on the freeways (or turnpikes) we'll say, "Hey, there goes a piece of the Internet!" It'll actually manifest in our physical reality.Now what the article doesn't tell you is that the containers are powered by sacks of potatoes and lemons. wow!
bbx25Nov 21, 2005
So, EPIC is still on by 2014?