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tedster - 6:12 pm on Nov 27, 2008 (gmt 0)
Seems like a good part of the speed came from innovative handling what they call "stragglers" - parts of their computations that were performing slower than expected. I also was interested to learn that every time they ran a test, at least one of the 4,000 hard drives "broke" - and so the need for triple redundancy.