On 18/01/2012 03:04 AM, Darren New wrote:
> Google has hundreds of computers in their data centers. Unfortunately
> for you, Google counts "a shipping container full of thousands of mother
> boards and disk drives" as "a computer". ;-) It's really quite awesome.
> Upgrading a server is known as "forklifting" it.

Pictures or it didn't happen. :-P

Actually, I was just thinking about how many scrap PCs you could 
scavenge and wire together to make a cluster. I wonder how much old junk 
you would need to even come close to the processing power of a single 
high-spec PC?

> And you know, I really, really miss SQL. :-)

Even if it does violate the relational model? Aww, it must be wuv...

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