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Web Search for a Planet: The Google Cluster Architecture
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MM.2003.1196112March/April 2003 (vol. 23 no. 2) pp. 22-28
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Luiz André Barroso, Jeffrey Dean, Urs Hölzle, "Web Search for a Planet: The Google Cluster Architecture," IEEE Micro, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 22-28, March/April, 2003.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MM.2003.1196112,
author = {Luiz André Barroso and Jeffrey Dean and Urs Hölzle},
title = {Web Search for a Planet: The Google Cluster Architecture},
journal ={IEEE Micro},
volume = {23},
number = {2},
issn = {0272-1732},
year = {2003},
pages = {22-28},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MM.2003.1196112},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Jeffrey Dean, Google
Urs Hölzle, Google

Amenable to extensive parallelization, Google?s web searchapplication lets different queries run on different processors and,by partitioning the overall index, also lets a single query usemultiple processors. To handle this workload, Google's architecture features clusters of more than 15,000 commodity-class pcs with fault-tolerant software. This architecture achievessuperior performance at a fraction of the cost of a system builtfrom fewer, but more expensive, high-end servers.

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Luiz André Barroso, Jeffrey Dean, Urs Hölzle, "Web Search for a Planet: The Google Cluster Architecture," IEEE Micro, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 22-28, Mar./Apr. 2003, doi:10.1109/MM.2003.1196112
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