An interesting analysis of Jeff Dean's overview of Google's data center operations (from the Google I/O conference for developers).
>>A 50 percent chance that the cluster will overheat? This suggests that Google's approach, which packs 40 servers into each rack, is running pretty close to the edge in terms of thermal management. Or perhaps that Google has trouble anticipating when an area of its data center may develop cooling challenges.
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Link to the complete article:
Failure Rates in Google Data Centers
Google fellow Jeff Dean offered an overview of Google's data center operations in this week's Google I/O conference for developers. News.com has an overview of Dean's presentation, most of which revisited general information that is already public and is summarized in our Google Data Center FAQ. But there were a couple of areas where Dean offered data that provided additional insight into Google's operations. In particular, he discussed failure rates within the clusters of 1,800 servers that Google uses as the building block for its infrastructure:
Friday, May 30, 2008
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