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Facebook Opens Up Its Hardware Secrets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Williams)
Mon Apr 11 20:07:07 2011
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:06:21 -0700
From: Bruce Williams <williams.bruce@gmail.com>
To: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
FYI
Just weeks before switching on a massive, super-efficient data center in
rural Oregon, Facebook is giving away the designs and specifications to the
whole thing online. In doing so, the company is breaking a long-established
unwritten rule for Web companies: don't share the secrets of your
server-stuffed data warehouses
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37317/?a=f
Bruce Williams
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of
withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all
this
they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
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