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Re:The Future Google Rackspace Power9 System by xiaopingguo on Sunday April 10, 2016 @11:38PM (#11469479)
Wasn't Google at one point all about commodity/consumer level hardware for their servers? Seems a huge turnaround.
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Re:The Future Google Rackspace Power9 System by sargun on Monday April 11, 2016 @01:06AM (#11469740)
This is still largely at commodity prices / performance points. It's been quite some time since any of their hardware has looked consumer-oriented, but comparing this to what enterprises buy, it's apples and oranges.

[1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920041528.do

[2] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub35290.html

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