> From: Bill Stoddard
> Date: Wed May 21, 2003 6:24:42 AM US/Pacific
> To: Fork
> Subject: the google cluster architecture
>
> picked this up from a former apache http server collegue
>
> http://www.computer.org/micro/mi2003/m2022.pdf
>
> The google architecture is a cluster of 15,000 commodity PCs. Fault
> tolerence and reliability achieved in software (highly redundant
> systems with software to detect and route around failures). Design
> tailored for best aggregate throughput, not peak server response time.
> Parallelize individual requests to manage response time. Lots of other
> interesting stuff here.
> Bill
>