http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/ Engadget Comments for Google's Data Center secrets revealed! http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/
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Now only if Google would package these babies and sell them. Not that the cat is out of the bag, Google is no doubt at least looking at licensing the internal battery technology to others. Very cool stuff.]]>Apr 2nd 2009 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/
I'm pretty sure they were smart enough not to use an especially failure prone hard drive in their servers.]]>Apr 2nd 2009 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/
I wouldn't call a motherboard designed to an individual consumers exact specification a 'commodity part'.]]>Apr 2nd 2009 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/



nevermind.]]>Apr 2nd 2009 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/
you haven't seen what i've been searching for, have you?

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midget pr0n?]]>Apr 2nd 2009 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 3rd 2009 6:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/
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About the same life as a commodity server... go figure.]]>Apr 2nd 2009 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 2:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 3:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/
Google may well be the physical manifestation of the Akashic Record, the All-Knowledge Source now materialising in the electromagnetic ether...

Whoahhh....]]>Apr 2nd 2009 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=Google&FIELD1=ASNM&co1=AND&TERM2=power&FIELD2=&d=PTXT]]>Apr 2nd 2009 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/
1. SATA Drives. In order to truly be as efficient as this article supposes the servers would need to rely on something other than standard SATA HDD's for storage. SSD's or more realistically, a boot from SAN option is far more efficient and likely in a server farm whose aim is to be as efficient as possible.

2. CPU fans. If the goal is efficiency, mechanical parts are your enemy. the fans on the CPU heatsinks are drawing at least 5 volts each. The solution to CPU fans is much larger COPPER heatsinks with no dedicated fan units. These types of heatsinks rely on a forced air circulation system from the datacenter A/C units.

3. Battery. What the?....who fell for this? Any IT guy worth his salt will tell you a UPS attached to a UPS is a BAD THING. They cyclically charge each other till one or the other burns up. That very setup is precisely what the description in this article implies. PLUS batteries discharge at a specific rate and charge at specific rate, making this feature of the 'server' no more efficient than if you were to plug it straight into a socket.

4. Efficiency starts and ends with the datacenter. A server is only efficient as the datacenter it is housed in. There are far too many considerations in this statement to sum up here but I can tell you point blank: Without seeing the datacenter, there is no way to determine that actual operational efficiency of this server.

These are my rambling thoughts from my 5 minutes of investigation of the article and video. I do not claim to know everything but I believe that this article is a total spoof. If it's not, I would ask Google to hire me to engineer their next 'super efficient server']]>Apr 2nd 2009 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 3rd 2009 2:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/
The components look pretty unimpressive, too. 2 SATA drives in a non-hot swap configuration? It's definitely NOT the sort of setup that datacenter engineers dream about. If it's actually true, then it might indicate how Google keeps its costs down for its datacenters: LOTS of servers with cheaper components.]]>Apr 2nd 2009 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/
The onboard battery is the "UPS" for the server - but allows a DC-DC connection, skipping the inefficiency of AC-DC conversion.

And it's cheap - nothing more than a standard alarm backup battery that costs around $20 retail (probably half that when ordered the quantities used here).

Those batteries have a 5 year life inside a un-conditioned alarm box, so I can see they easily will last the life of their server.]]>Apr 2nd 2009 8:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 2nd 2009 8:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/02/googles-data-center-secrets-revealed/Apr 3rd 2009 1:21AM