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What kind of hardware does Google use?

Exclusively Intel processors? Always?
Xeons, Duos, or Quads?
Intel chipsets?
motherboards - Intel, Gigabyte, MSI?
What kind and build of RAM?
What physical memory configuration (single large capacity modules or multiple smaller capacity modules)?
What brand of HDD (I know they used to buy almost all the brands - from their disk failure report)?
Were they able to implement a single voltage power supply for their servers (like they had been pushing for a long time to Intel)?

Any other trivia you have or would like to share?

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This would fit better on Serverfault.com or SuperUser.com – Brandon Jul 20 at 17:42

People shouldn't move conversations from StackOverflow or ServerFault to SuperUser.com while it's still in better. It's fracking annoying to be posting a decent answer to something in one side, and then bam, it's closed and locked up in a site I can't access. What if the author himself doesn't have access to the site? – darthcoder Jul 20 at 18:22

@darthcoder ServerFault is no longer password protected. Try clearing your cookies etc. and accessing it - it'll let you right in. – ceejayoz Jul 20 at 18:44

Peter · Answer 1 · 2009-07-20 17:42:50Z

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Lots of these:

Servers

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this was pretty much the defining article for me – MikeJ Jul 21 at 1:01

Moayad Mardini · Answer 2 · 2009-07-20 17:42:58Z

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Take a look at Google platform.

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mmmm.... Server Pr0n – Saul Dolgin Jul 20 at 18:31

Alan · Answer 3 · 2009-07-20 20:43:48Z

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This is pretty neat discription.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html

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Kamil Kisiel · Answer 4 · 2009-07-20 20:46:05Z

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If you want commercially available hardware that's very similar to what Google does (DC power supplies, stripped down systems, ultra high density) then check out SGI/Rackable's Cloud Rack product line.

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PoorLuzer · Answer 5 · 2009-07-21 00:47:07Z

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Can't I share my SO account here as well? I can't comment/post/update this thread anymore and I created this topic back at SO :-(

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	Make sure to associate your accounts: blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/07/… – bdonlan Jul 21 at 2:08
	I have collected some nice details on this topic.. will update soon :-) – PoorLuzer Jul 30 at 2:45

John Gardeniers · Answer 6 · 2009-07-20 22:06:46Z

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Have you tried contacting Google themselves? Seems to me anything else is probably just guesswork.

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Google are notoriously silent about their data centers or configurations, hence all the guesswork ;) – Farseeker Jul 21 at 1:03

What hardware do the Google servers use?

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