amznVibe - 6:39 pm on Mar 23, 2005 (gmt 0)

Also check out their oldie but goodie from 2002:
[researchchannel.org...]

Google's Linux cluster currently processes over 150 million queries a day, searching a multi-terabyte web index for every query with an average response time of less than a quarter of a second, with near-100% uptime. In this discussion, Google Fellow Urs Hölzle will describe the software and hardware infrastructure that makes this performance possible, as well as provide an overview of the main problems facing a web search, software architecture, servers and compact rack hardware designs.

For those with massive bandwidth and low latency (warning: my 300k/sec cable isnt even fast enough) you can try using their ultra high quality MPEG2 stream via the IBM "VideoCharger" player which can be found here:
[www-306.ibm.com...]

These videos can be saved permanently using HiDownload, WMRecorder or similar - some of the slides are worthy of much closer study ;)

(for example in this video it is the first time I have heard of google "shards" [google.com] but maybe I just haven't been paying attention?)