First Google Hardware

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By John Lumberjack

Look i found great photos of the first google hardware. It's really avesome.




300 MHz Dual Pentium II Servers with 512MB of RAM. There are 9 9G drives between the two machines.

F50 IBM RS6000 with 4 processors and 512MB of memory. It had 8 9G drives internal.

The left box had 3 9G drives, and there are 6 4G drives on the right (the original storage for Backrub). These was attached to our Sun Ultra II.

This IBM disk expansion box had another 8 9G drives.

This is our faithful Sun Ultra II with dual 200MHz processors, and 256MB of RAM. This was the main machine for the original Backrub system.

This was homemade disk box which contains 10 9G SCSI drives. Also see the picture below:

The whole google hardware. How they choosed which keyboard to use?

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John  says:
6 weeks ago

What year is this?

Joel  says:
6 weeks ago

1653

hakan  says:
6 weeks ago

1998

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John Lumberjack  says:
6 weeks ago

1998 and it was like

http://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/google.s

and database Index contained ~25 million pages. Now it is much bigger ;-)

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funride  says:
6 weeks ago

Great hub! It´s incredible how things change in 10 years. We can just imagine how it will be in 2018 ;)

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John Lumberjack  says:
6 weeks ago

Thanks. I searched for new fotos of the google servers. But do not found. -(

If anybody have, please give me the link.

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monitor  says:
6 weeks ago

Very happy I found your hub. Amazing.Your fanMon.

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HubPageGuy  says:
6 weeks ago

Looks like an extremely organised set up to me! LOL

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compu-smart  says:
6 weeks ago

cool! ....I would like to have seen a few people standing in front of the hardware in first pic to see how big they actually are, and the last pic looks like my front room at the moment :/

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Gadzooks  says:
5 weeks ago

Is this for real? If so, what point were they at when they were running this hardware?

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John Lumberjack  says:
5 weeks ago

In Stanford University was first google platform.

Current Google hardware:Servers are commodity-class x86 PCs running customized versions of Linux. Indeed, the goal is to purchase CPU generations that offer the best performance per unit of power, not absolute performance. Estimates of the power required for over 450,000 servers range upwards of 20 megawatts, which could cost on the order of US$2 million per month in electricity charges.
...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform

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Sally's Trove  says:
2 weeks ago

Awesome pictures, John. That's what computers and drives are supposed to look like! You can really see the "human interface" in all the purposeful wiring and the LEGOs...those are LEGOs, aren't they?

Reminds me of my first programming job, and I won't tell you when, but it was on a card-eating IBM1800. The "human interface" factor there consisted of a LOT of blinking lights, which you could stare at while your program was compiling. Sigh. How things have changed.

Nice hub!

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John Lumberjack  says:
2 weeks ago

Yeah it was LEGOs =)

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