"Google envisions 10 million servers" says Google's Jeff Dean.
As a system user and a guy with passion for large and powerful systems, the statement fascinates me to know more about the network, the electricity, the storage capacity especially the amout of time it takes to carry out a computation. More important, I would be interested in the size of the hardware maintenance team. Isn't that interesting?
The same news would pop up different set of questions for other people(with no computer background).
A person from India would immediately think of the power consumption and the bandwidth required for the data centers.
The actual question remains(at least to me):
1. Do we need such huge computing power?
2. Where are we finally heading in this 'competition for success,name,power' ?
3. What is the situation of the nature with 10 million servers dissipating lot of heat?
Is Google thinking of Technology and its effect on Nature in the long run?
Is 'Technology' making our lives easy or difficult?
No doubt, this is highly debatable. :)
Update: You can find the presentation here
Thanks Sandeep for the link :)
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