How does google work?

OneManArmy · 01-18-2005, 03:39 AM

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Originally posted by dawizman
Again, to clarify, if you read the info in that link, it says that those statistics are only an estimate or googles cluster size. Th only people who would know 100% would be Google employees.

Here is a seemingly quite interesting talk that was given at UW Seattle on November 5th on Google and how it manages its linux clusters--something I am sure you will enjoy hearing about as you complete the project...

The mediaplayer link is:

http://www.cs.washington.edu/info/vi...2002_11_05.asx

Note: The above is copied and pasted as is from here .
BTW, Kaffeine seems to play it with no problems whatsoever. mplayer didn't work though.

cs-cam · 01-18-2005, 04:31 PM

The Google database is able to be searched so fast because the entire thing is stored in volatile memory clusters, same principal as RAM but not quite.