Talk:Google platform
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[edit] Sources?
Very little on this page can be cited; each fact should be linked to a Google 'public annoucement'. e.g. has Google published how high their cooling towers are?
[edit] Servers section
Unsure about the Servers section of the article and how it relates to the Google Filesystem, which employs a hierarchy of Master Server, Replica Servers, Chunk Servers, and eventually clients themselves. [1] --Sgkay 19:21, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Accuracy
I have an objection to "THz" as a measure of computing power. This seems to be a reference to simply summing the clock speeds of a number of different computers (like saying that 5 machines with 500 MHz clocks will have "2.5 GHz" of processing power). This additive measure is very misleading; why not phrase the calculation in terms of a unit that is meaningful?
I also am concerned about saying that Blue Gene is the fastest computer available to humanity. Is there a problem about classified military computers, which may be faster than the computers that enter the TOP500 competition? Schoen 18:52, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
- I agree that the Thz is suboptimal, but we are quoting from somebody else's estimate, and we can't really change that. The Teraflop number given later in the article is a common measure of supercomputer power. I'll reformulate the Blue Gene bit to address your objection. AxelBoldt 23:15, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Bizarre Supercomputer Claim
"According to this estimate, the Google server farm constitutes one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. At 126–316 teraflops, it can perform at over one third the speed of the Blue Gene supercomputer, which is (as of 2005) the top entry in the TOP500 list of most powerful unclassified computing machines available to humanity."
What nonsense. Can anyone think of anything less mad to say on the subject? I am reminded of claims that the IBM Cell is a supercomputer on the basis of its FLOP score. Rsynnott 00:57, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Need estimate of megawatts and electricity costs
Added estimate of electricity power costs at 5-8 cents/kwh, 65,000-100,000 servers at 100-200 watts each ~= up to 20 MW with a cost of 1.2 million $ / month.
[edit] Server hardware and software says nothing about software
Change it to just Server hardware? New299 12:22, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Other Google centers
Could we add a list of all Google centers around the globe, where Google has GFS servers? Peter S. 15:34, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Current Hardware
Seems out of date. I'm seriously wondering if they're still using 80GB hd's on their 1.4 Mhz procs, with 256 MB ram...? 130.111.158.153 00:03, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Server Operation
From what I know, and from the published paper on GoogleFS, I find it highly unlikely that they use RAID-1 in their production, data center nodes. The whole architecture is designed to workaround commodity hardware, using commodity hardware -- except in low capacity operations where it makes sense to use specialised hardware. 217.147.80.137 03:57, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Article name?
Is Google platform an accepted/official term. If not, I suggest this article be more properly (syntatically) called Google's platform, or even better (from the PoV of clarity), Google's infrastructure/Infrastructure of Google. If it is an accepted term this needs to be reflected by introducing the term in the opening as is done on a normal article. —Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley talk contrib 03:16, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Inconsistnency
The Current Hardware section seems out of date with regard to the lead (in fact I am pretty sure it comes from a 2003 document). 1Z 19:28, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] kapasitas google
berapa server yang digunakan dan jenis servernya? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.160.118.251 (talk) 10:06, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Google Platform images
I noticed one of the graphics on the page which shows the load balancing does not have English text on it. Since this is the English Wikipedia, it would be nice if the original graphic designer could permit it to be translated or an English equivalent supplied. Granted, most people reading this article will know what the image means; however, it doesn't mean that it is acceptable to have non-English text when an English equivalent is more than possible. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.161.86.254 (talk) 19:00, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
