Paul, re Google, if you recall, Andy Grove mentioned them at the stockholders meeting last year. My note on what he said:
Andy mentioned a favorite search engine, Google (I use them too), as getting up to 10 million hits a day. Google's CEO has said they're adding 30 Intel servers a DAY. That's little old GOOGLE!
The quote below from the article about Google bodes well for Intel based servers, especially since the article also says Google uses Linux.
"You don't need one, enormous 64-way system, as long as you have truckloads of small systems," said Rich Partridge, an analyst with D.H. Brown Associates. "Google is taking a trend that others are doing and taking it out to an extreme."»More from InternetWeek
Of course, when the 32 and 64 way McKinley based systems come out, we'll find other applications for those.
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