Google on the Gorge may have been the first datacenter Google actually owned, versus rented.
Video on youtube.
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Google uncloaks once-secret server
Video on youtube.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Data Centers as Information Substations
Quotes from:
Data Center Overload
Tom Vanderbilt, NYT, June 8, 2009.
The data center is our railroad; it doesn’t matter what kind of train you put on it. . . .
While it once took 30 to 50 years for electricity costs to match the cost of the server itself, the electricity on a low-end server will now exceed the server cost itself in less than four years — which is why the geography of the cloud has migrated to lower-rate areas. . . .
The specter of infinitesimal delay is why, when the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, the nation’s oldest, upgraded its trading platform in 2006, it decided to locate the bulk of its trading engines 80 miles — and three milliseconds — from Philadelphia, and into NJ2 (a data center located in NJ), where the time to communicate between servers is down to a millionth of a second. (Latency concerns are not limited to Wall Street; it is estimated that a 100-millisecond delay reduces Amazon’s sales by 1 percent.) . . .
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Data Center Overload
Tom Vanderbilt, NYT, June 8, 2009.
The data center is our railroad; it doesn’t matter what kind of train you put on it. . . .
While it once took 30 to 50 years for electricity costs to match the cost of the server itself, the electricity on a low-end server will now exceed the server cost itself in less than four years — which is why the geography of the cloud has migrated to lower-rate areas. . . .
The specter of infinitesimal delay is why, when the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, the nation’s oldest, upgraded its trading platform in 2006, it decided to locate the bulk of its trading engines 80 miles — and three milliseconds — from Philadelphia, and into NJ2 (a data center located in NJ), where the time to communicate between servers is down to a millionth of a second. (Latency concerns are not limited to Wall Street; it is estimated that a 100-millisecond delay reduces Amazon’s sales by 1 percent.) . . .
We’re at the beginning of the information utility. The past is big monolithic buildings. The future looks more like a substation — the data center represents the information substation of tomorrow. . . .
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Vinton Cerf, 'Father of the Internet,' UO Video Channel
Vinton Cerf is an American computer scientist who is the "person most often called 'the father of the Internet'." His contributions have been recognized repeatedly, with honorary degrees and awards that include the National Medal of Technology, the Turing Award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. (Wikipedia)
Cerf presented a lecture, "Tracking the internet into the 21st century" at 11:00am on October 17 in the Ford Lecture Hall of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the University of Oregon campus. Andrzej Proskurowski, CIS Head, introduced the speaker.
For video of the actual lecture, please see the UO Libweb archive.
For additional information about the lecture see Distinguished Lecture Series - Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century.
Cerf presented a lecture, "Tracking the internet into the 21st century" at 11:00am on October 17 in the Ford Lecture Hall of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the University of Oregon campus. Andrzej Proskurowski, CIS Head, introduced the speaker.
For video of the actual lecture, please see the UO Libweb archive.
For additional information about the lecture see Distinguished Lecture Series - Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Data centers on the rise in NW
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft on the Gorge.
From Seattle PI.
Yahoo Day in Chelan County, WA.
From datacenterknowledge.com
The Information Factories (Wired, 14.10).
Notes on the Googleplex.
From Seattle PI.
Yahoo Day in Chelan County, WA.
From datacenterknowledge.com
The Information Factories (Wired, 14.10).
Notes on the Googleplex.
Microsoft on the Gorge
Will the Windows desktop disappear into the cloud?
3-min. video profiling Microsoft's cloud computing center in Quincy, WA.
From the 'Beeb' (BBC).
3-min. video profiling Microsoft's cloud computing center in Quincy, WA.
From the 'Beeb' (BBC).
Dark Side of the Cloud: Gigawatts or the Green Grid?
Hidden (& not so hidden) costs of cloud computing: "The planetary machine is on track to be consuming half of all the world's output of electricity by the end of this decade."
The Information Factories (Wired, 14.10). Notes on the Googleplex.
Google uncloaks once-secret server. Google reveals new performance results for data center energy efficiency measured by a standard called power usage effectiveness (PUE), developed by a consortium called the Green Grid.
S3 outage: time to double up
Can you trust your business to Google's cloud?
The Information Factories (Wired, 14.10). Notes on the Googleplex.
Google uncloaks once-secret server. Google reveals new performance results for data center energy efficiency measured by a standard called power usage effectiveness (PUE), developed by a consortium called the Green Grid.
S3 outage: time to double up
Can you trust your business to Google's cloud?
Sunday, July 27, 2008
After the Cloud: The Edge
Looking beyond the cloud:
The edge-centric Internet.
OSCON day 2: Prophet, your path out of the cloud. Open-source conference, Portland, OR.
The edge-centric Internet.
OSCON day 2: Prophet, your path out of the cloud. Open-source conference, Portland, OR.
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