October 9, 2007 at 14:53Google and IBM are building a network of data centers
Google and IBM announced a joint project to build several data centers that will be part of the computing infrastructure for US universities. It is anticipated that this “distributed supercomputer” will be used in university research and other research projects.
According to information leaked to the press, Google is already building a data center in an unnamed place, where by the end of the year there will be “more than 1600 processors” (as you can see, at first the data centers will not be so big, but in the future they will be increased by an order of magnitude ) IBM is also building a data center. Both companies agreed to allocate $ 30 million for this project over two years. An interesting fact: the NY Times newspaper reports that data centers will use the "version of open source software from Google data centers."
According to experts, the “university” specialization of data centers should not be misleading. In fact, IBM and Google are interested in building a global computing platform for web software. It is very good that universities have joined this process.
According to information leaked to the press, Google is already building a data center in an unnamed place, where by the end of the year there will be “more than 1600 processors” (as you can see, at first the data centers will not be so big, but in the future they will be increased by an order of magnitude ) IBM is also building a data center. Both companies agreed to allocate $ 30 million for this project over two years. An interesting fact: the NY Times newspaper reports that data centers will use the "version of open source software from Google data centers."
According to experts, the “university” specialization of data centers should not be misleading. In fact, IBM and Google are interested in building a global computing platform for web software. It is very good that universities have joined this process.