Wouldn't it be so much Easier if Google had a map of where there Barges are?

CNET writes about the Google Barge moving to Stockton.  Wow isn’t that exciting.  :-)

It's official: Google Barge moving to Stockton

The floating showroom is expected to set sail for its new home as early as next week. Now, maybe Google will finally tell us what's behind all the black netting and scaffolding.

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Google Barge is said to be moving to Stockton, Calif., as early as next week, weather permitting.

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It would be so much easier if Google would just share the location like where is James Hamilton’s boat?
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How Google backs up the Internet

Here is a talk from Oct 2013 on “How Google backs up tho Internet"

If you don’t have the time to watch the video here is a post based on the video.

How Google Backs Up The Internet Along With Exabytes Of Other Data

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Raymond Blum leads a team of Site Reliability Engineers charged with keeping Google's data secret and keeping it safe. Of course Google would never say how much data this actually is, but from comments it seems that it is not yet a yottabyte, but is many exabytes in size. GMail alone is approaching low exabytes of data.

Mr. Blum, in the video How Google Backs Up the Internet, explained common backup strategies don’t work for Google for a very googly sounding reason: typically they scale effort with capacity. If backing up twice as much data requires twice as much stuff to do it, where stuff is time, energy, space, etc., it won’t work, it doesn’t scale.  You have to find efficiencies so that capacity can scale faster than the effort needed to support that capacity. A different plan is needed when making the jump from backing up one exabyte to backing up two exabytes. And the talk is largely about how Google makes that happen.

In depth report, Solar Farm goes live in Mohave Desert

GigaOm’s Katie Fehrenbacher reports on the ribbon cutting of the Solar farm in Mohave desert.

The Hoover Dam of solar is now live in the desert of California & why it’s so important

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A look at the heliostats and 2 of the 3 towers of Ivanpah. Taken from the 6th floor of the Unit 1 tower.
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The revolutionary solar farm in the Mojave desert is finally live. Here’s the story behind the tech, and an inside look at the launch.

Google is one of the backers of the project.

Google even put in $168 million in 2o11. Google says it’s both interested in the financial return that a 25-year power contract can deliver, and also that it’s interested in backing clean power for its data centers both directly and indirectly.

The solar mirrors at Ivanpah spell out the word Google, a backer of the project.

The solar mirrors at Ivanpah spell out the word Google, a backer of the project. A view from the 6th floor of tower Unit 1.

 

Disclusure; i do some work for GigaOm Research and know Katie.

Dudes (and Gals) Why Would Google be design Server Silicon? The Silicon for High Performance Clusters makes more sense

EETimes has an article quoting John Doerr that Google has chip designers.

Google Ramps Up Chip Design

 
 
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SAN FRANCISCO — Google appears to be ramping up a broad and deep effort in developing its own chips. Just what it is designing is still unclear.

At a panel at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference(ISSCC), veteran venture capitalist John Doerr said, "at some point in time Facebook will work on proprietary silicon, I know for a fact Google is."

The same day, another veteran chip designer at ISSCC told EE Times he knows at least two or three circuit designers Google has hired over the last year or so.

A key engineer behind the Hewlett-Packard Moonshoot server moved to Google six months ago. Partha Ranganathan "is currently at Google designing their next-generation systems," according tohis website. He worked at HP on systems that can accommodate a wide range of Xeon, Atom, and ARM processors.

Would Google be designing their own server chips?  The media is all excited Google would develop ARM servers.  How much better can Google make a two proc server run?

What makes way more sense is Google designing silicon for a high performance fabric that works across 100s/1000s of servers or maybe even 10,000/100,000 servers.  If you look at Partha’s resume you can see he has the background for disaggregation systems and systems that scale.  Like a super computer system.

Darn No Data Center Planned for Moffett Field Hangar One, Home for Aerospace and Robotics

I joked that Moffett Field’s Hangar One infrastructure could be an interesting place for Google server racks in a data center.  Turns out the Mercury News has got Google saying they will use Hangar One for Aerospace and Robotics.

Google plans aerospace and robotics projects for Hangar One

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Scaffolding is set up inside the north end of Hangar One at Moffett Field in Mountain View on Wednesday, June 6, 2012.
Scaffolding is set up inside the north end of Hangar One at Moffett Field in Mountain View on Wednesday, June 6, 2012. (Kirstina Sangsahachart/Palo Alto Daily News)
 

MOUNTAIN VIEW -- If you were Google, what would you do with a 350,000-square-foot hangar that was originally built to house helium airships for the U.S. Navy?

How about using its cavernous interior for building and testing new robots, planetary rovers and other space or aviation technology?