• Where The Internet Lives: Google gives rare look inside its data centers
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[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avP5d16wEp0[/media] • [url=http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/]Massive photo gallery[/url] • [url=http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/streetview/]Street View inside a data center[/url] [t]http://imgkk.com/i/u6nk.jpg[/t] [t]http://imgkk.com/i/qt37.jpg[/t] [t]http://imgkk.com/i/f2s-.jpg[/t] [url]http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-57534183-2/google-tries-wowing-the-world-with-a-look-at-its-data-centers/[/url] [quote=CNET]Google only rarely gives outsiders a look at its data centers, but today it's trying to make up for lost time with a large online photo gallery and Street View tour of the computing hardware. The company launched a new site, "Where the Internet Lives" with a lot of eye candy for people who enjoy racks of computer gear, raised-floor ventilation systems, multicolored cables, and massive air-conditioning chillers. Urs Hoelzle, Google's senior vice president for technical infrastructure, announced the site in a blog post today. It's short on details for those who want to eye Google's servers up close, but there are some glimpses in the accompanying video about Google's data centers and in a view from last year. But to a certain extent, Google's individual servers are beside the point. They may be a fundamental computing unit to ordinary people, but Google thinks at much larger scale. Several jewels in the company's software crown -- MapReduce, the Google File System, and Spanner, for example -- are designed specifically to run on massive clusters of machines and to keep on running even when individual servers fail. Superficially, Google's custom-built servers look similar to the one unveiled in 2009, though: computing components bolted or strapped to an open-topped piece of sheet metal. Steve Jobs might have cared about the aesthetics of his computers' innards, but for Google, the highest calling is the most purely economical and functional object. Showing off the data center is smart move for a couple reasons. First, it could help outsiders value an operation at Google that's under increasing scrutiny for consuming tremendous electrical power in an era when enlightened companies are supposed to minimize their impact on the environment. Second, it could trigger some ooh-aahs among people who've begun to take Google's truly impressive computing achievements for granted. It's something Google can genuinely brag about. The company gets grief for alleged privacy invasions and monopoly abuse, but the company has earned respect when it comes to running a colossal computing operation. Not for nothing do people joke that Skynet is most likely to become conscious within Google's infrastructure. Google is bringing its levity to the occasion, too. As Arvid Bux noticed, there's also a Star Wars Imperial stormtrooper and R2-D2 droid in the Street View tour. Also, Connie Zhou's photography is really very nice. This is corporate propaganda that truly is a treat for the eyes.[/quote]
Simply yes. Those tubes are gorgeous.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/INgjR.png[/img] Aww comeon google
I would work at Google, seems like a great atmosphere to be in
It's a series of tubes!
mmmm dem tubes
[QUOTE=smurfy;38077632][t]http://imgkk.com/i/f2s-.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] I love the colorful pipes.
I love how they literally devote a huge amount of time to replacing hard drives since they burn out so fast.
[QUOTE=Desuh;38077719]I love the colorful pipes.[/QUOTE] The cables are the same [t]http://imgkk.com/i/5j_r.jpg[/t]
And Google said, let there be brightly coloured tubes for the internet, and then there were tubes. And Google saw the tubes, and it was good.
[t]http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/images/_2000/PRY_22.jpg[/t] [quote]A rare look behind the server aisle. Here hundreds of fans funnel hot air from the server racks into a cooling unit to be recirculated. The green lights are the server status LEDs reflecting from the front of our servers.[/quote] So green
You're shitting me. The internet really IS a series of tubes.
Wow they have a storm trooper protecting the servers.
1:17 This kills the hard drive
[QUOTE=JCDentonUNATCO;38077867]You're shitting me. The internet really IS a series of tubes.[/QUOTE] The tubes are water cooling
[QUOTE=Desuh;38077719]I love the colorful pipes.[/QUOTE] Reminds me of Mirrors Edge.
Now if the terrorists attack this.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/LEPlg.jpg[/img] when you see it...
Did anyone else notice the storm trooper? FUCK
I would love to work at Google. It seems to be THE perfect place to have a job at.
Oh wow, that's outstanding. Very nice!
[QUOTE=VistaPOWA;38077920]I would love to work at Google. It seems to be THE perfect place to have a job at.[/QUOTE] A friend from college has been offered a job at google, and they've bought an engine he wrote. He asked if he could finish college first. They agreed :smithicide: He just basically just finishing college because he can, he could stop right now if he wanted to and go work at google to further develop his engine...
look near the stormtroopers feet, you'll see R2D2
Clearly the Empire have some sort of plan to spy on Rebel web activities
[QUOTE=IliekBoxes;38077914][img]http://i.imgur.com/LEPlg.jpg[/img] when you see it...[/QUOTE] Does my heart good to know the lists of obscure porn I've searched for in my life is guarded by Storm Troopers. :v:
"Let's take a look inside one of our Google data centers: here, in the server room, we use cutting-edge nuclear technology and latest physics theories to store your LOLcat videos within empty slides of space and time. If one of our hard drives breaks, we erase all of its data, compress it to a size of a small bead and let it lie buried on the bottom of the ocean floor to make sure there is no trace of copyrighted content. And this is our cooling station - where we use liquid unobtanium to cool every one of our servers to temperatures below absolute zero. We also make 300,000 backups of every piece of data on the internet to ensure that your shitty Minecraft Let's Plays always stay online." -Google 2012 But in all seriousness, this is fucking insanely cool. And this is only a single data center - there are many of them around the world. Edit: come on, one and all, jump onto the box band wagon!
[QUOTE=Glorbo;38077882]1:17 This kills the hard drive[/QUOTE] oh i thought they were crushing them into pieces to increase durability
[QUOTE=smurfy;38077632][t]http://imgkk.com/i/f2s-.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] That was the best screensaver in Windows 98.
[I]Damn.[/I]
Some of these pictures look like something from the future :pwn:
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