The Datacenter as a Computer, an in-depth discussion of Google's architecture

Posted by andreyf on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @05:38PM
from the morganclaypool.com dept.

http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/pdf/10.2200/S00193ED1V01Y200905CAC006

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Re:The Datacenter as a Computer, an in-depth discussion of G... by aditya on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @05:54PM (#949335)

Here's the pdf: http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/pdf/10.2200/S00193ED1V01Y2...

(via @spolsky)

EDIT: removed cookieset :-)

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Re:The Datacenter as a Computer, an in-depth discussion of G... by andreyf on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @06:04PM (#949349)

Yeah, your link won't work either. These guys have a weird linking system - you need to visit the URL http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/pdf/10.2200/S00193ED1V01Y2...

Which sets a cookie and redirects you to the one you can't share.

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Re:The Datacenter as a Computer, an in-depth discussion of G... by jacquesm on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @06:46PM (#949415)

thanks!

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Re:The Datacenter as a Computer, an in-depth discussion of G... by mmt on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @07:52PM (#949495)

So far, I've only had a chance to scan this paper, but it looks like it address a remarkably broad number of the issues surrounding operating and growing large clusters.

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Re:The Datacenter as a Computer, an in-depth discussion of G... by prodigal_erik on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @05:50PM (#949325)

No content, just

> Caliber uses cookies to improve performance by remembering that you are logged in when you go from page to page [...] you must accept the Caliber cookie to use the system

If this is typical of the authors' technical prowess, I think I'll pass.

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Re:The Datacenter as a Computer, an in-depth discussion of G... by andreyf on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @06:01PM (#949345)

My mistake. The authors are Luiz André Barroso [1] and Urs Hölzle [2] from Google Research. The host of this paper has nothing to do with them. Just remove cookieSet=1 from the end of the URL (if an admin could remove it from the story, would be appreciated).

1. http://research.google.com/pubs/LuizBarroso.html

2. http://research.google.com/pubs/author79.html

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Re:The Datacenter as a Computer, an in-depth discussion of G... by nikils on Thursday November 19, 2009 @04:58AM (#950004)

What language to use to program such a computer ?

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Re:The Datacenter as a Computer, an in-depth discussion of G... by leej on Thursday November 19, 2009 @07:38AM (#950124)

Map and Reduce, if you count.

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