Saturday, June 17, 2006
Google Set To Blast Off
According to stories appearing in the media, GOOGLE is secretly developing what is thought to be one of the most powerful supercomputers in an ambitious bid to outstrip rivals Yahoo! and Microsoft.
Google is building a complex the size of two football pitches with cooling towers four floors high on a remote stretch of land in Oregon.
The centre is set to house two data centres and thousands of servers that will power the billions of search queries it handles daily, as well as an expanding range of other services that google already offer such as their highly successful google talk and gmail software plus their mapping like Google Earth and Google Mars.
Microsoft and Yahoo have announced they are building big data centres to the north, in Washington State.
The design and nature of the new outpost has been a closely guarded secret.
Google is building a complex the size of two football pitches with cooling towers four floors high on a remote stretch of land in Oregon.
The centre is set to house two data centres and thousands of servers that will power the billions of search queries it handles daily, as well as an expanding range of other services that google already offer such as their highly successful google talk and gmail software plus their mapping like Google Earth and Google Mars.
Microsoft and Yahoo have announced they are building big data centres to the north, in Washington State.
The design and nature of the new outpost has been a closely guarded secret.
# posted by Peter Saville - IT Consultant @ 3:17 AM 
