Jim Reese Talks About The Original Google Servers
I'm trying to track down a picture of Google's current servers. I know about the presentation Jim Reese did on technetcast. He displays some slides and I'd like to find them.
The Technology Behind Google (MP3 Audio)The technology behind Google: company overview, search parameters and results, hardware and query load balancing, GNU/Linux cluster topology, scalability, fault tolerance, and more (1hr 13min - available in streaming and downloadable formats).
Google Inside Part 2: Q&A Session with Jim Reese
15 minute Q&A session with Jim Reese, Google's Chief Operations Engineer.
The closest I've found are these which are great for the original servers they ran the prototype Google engine on.
Google Servers Pictures
The development of the Google algorithms was carried on on a variety of Computers, mainly provided by the NSF-DARPA-NASA-funded Digital Library project at Stanford. Click to see the equipment in its laboratory setting on the basement floor of Gates Information Sciences. Crawling the web to obtain its link structure required an enormous amount of storage in comparison with typical student projects at that time. We show here the original storage assembly, containing 10 4 Gigabyte disk drives, giving 40 Gbytes total.
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