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The Original GOOGLE Servers

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    The Original GOOGLE Servers  which was used by Page and Brin in 1996               The development of the Google algorithms was carried on on a variety of Computers, mainly provided by the NSF-DARPA-NASA-funded Digital Library project at Stanford.         Crawling the web to obtain its link structure required an enormous amount of storage in comparison with typical  student projects  at that time. We show here the original storage assembly , containing 10 4 Gigabyte disk drives, giving 40 Gbytes total.   T he equipment in its laboratory setting ,  in a room  on the  basement floor  of Gates  Information Sciences .

GOOGLE Storage

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The Original GOOGLE Computer Storage  [Page and Brin] (1996)            The development of the Google algorithms was carried on on a variety of Computers, mainly provided by the NSF-DARPA-NASA-funded Digital Library project at Stanford.         Crawling the web to obtain its link structure required an enormous amount of storage in comparison with typical student projects at that time. We show here the original storage assembly, containing 10 4 Gigabyte disk drives, giving 40 Gbytes total. Click to see  the equipment in its laboratory setting , in a room on the basement floor of Gates Information Sciences. From 2003 to 2010 the Google storage unit was exhibited in the basement hall of Gates Computer Sciences, as shown on this page. In 2010 the Google Storage unit was loaned for permanent exhibit in the Octagon of the new Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center.

99 HACKS TO MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER!

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99 LIFE HACKS TO MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER!