Topic: searching the Web
Topic: implementing distributed systems and applications
Topic: computer architecture
Topic: code optimization
Topic: data parallel processing
Topic: full-text indexing
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Reference
Barroso, L.A., Dean, J., Holzle, U.,
"Web search for a planet: the Google cluster architecture",
IEEE Micro, March-April 2003, pp. 22-28.
Google
Quotations
22 ;;Quote: a Google query touches 100s Mbytes of data and execute billions of CPU cycles
| 22+;;Quote: Google runs more than 15,000 commodity-class PCs
| 22+;;Quote: energy efficiency and price-performance are the primary factors for Google clusters
| 23 ;;Quote: search is parallelizable by randomly dividing index into pieces called index shards; a pool of machines for each shard
| 25 ;;Quote: depreciation is larger than power and cooling; servers last only 2-3 years
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