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From: E_K_S	11/18/2005 9:43:28 PM
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Might these shipping container boxes Google is developing be SUNW Opteron servers running Solaris 10? (http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051117.html) From the article:"...This shipping container is a prototype data center. Google hired a pair of very bright industrial designers to figure out how to cram the greatest number of CPUs, the most storage, memory and power support into a 20- or 40-foot box. We're talking about 5000 Opteron processors and 3.5 petabytes of disk storage that can be dropped-off overnight by a tractor-trailer rig. The idea is to plant one of these puppies anywhere Google owns access to fiber, basically turning the entire Internet into a giant processing and storage grid...." <clip> "...Where some other outfit might put a router, Google is putting an entire data center, and the results are profound. Take Internet TV as an example. Replicating that Victoria's Secret lingerie show that took down Broadcast.com years ago would be a non-event for Google. The video feed would be multicast over the private fiber network to 300+ data centers, where it would be injected at gigabit speeds into each peering ISP. Viewers watching later would be reading from a locally cached copy. Yeah, but would it be Windows Media, Real, or QuickTime? It doesn't matter. To Google's local data center, bits are bits and the system is immune to protocols or codecs. For the first time, Internet TV will scale to the same level as broadcast and cable TV, yet still offer soemthing different for every viewer if they want it...." ============================================================ SUNW data centers in portable shipping containers. If Google needs to scale up they can use the next generation Sunw systems too! The network is the computer according to Google. Will this type of partnership help SUNW? Maybe they need too expand their hardware/software devises to the cable box w/ Cisco/Scientific Atlantic so there is a seamless secure (w/ biometric) PC into every home. What about a JAVA/JINI devise that is built into one of those CISCO/Scientific Atlantic boxes that delivers a "virtural" Google PC/Desktop? EKS

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