Google First Production Server @Computer History Museum

Google first production server at Computer History Museum

Here's the description showed along with the system.

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First Google Production Server
Google, Inc., United States

With limited funds, Google founders Lary Page and Sergey Brin initially deployed this system of inexpensive, interconnected PCs to procss many thousands of search requests per second from Google users. This hardware system reflected the Google search algorithm itself, which is based on tolerating multiple computer failures and optimizing around them.

This production server was one of about thirty such racks in the first Google data center. Even though many of the installed PCs never worked and were difficult to repair, these racks provided Google with its first large-scale computing system and allowed the company to grow quickly and at minimal cost.

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And, you can find the photos on the Flickr below. Sorry for the low quality :-(

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[NoirNG]

Look at how bend these motherboards are. You could beat the crap out of your hardware back then and it would still work. Today, give your computer one glare and it won't work for days. :D

[samiam4200]

That's one great rack!

[syndrome130013]

now tat all fits into ur tablet pc

[Baraquiel62]

my PC is faster than that and has more memory I bet LOL!

[marcel911]

Just think, many of my early searches went through that server :)

[lolizmu]

specs? xD

[mastergx1]

lol - its just a bunch of mbs neted together

[york2600]

@zozanday This really wouldn't have been insanely expensive for a production system. Mobo, 2 Xeon CPUs, RAM, 2 desktop class HDs, and a PSU.  It wouldn't be much at all

[Electroniko06]

This is art

[j7x54]

uttt ohh spagettti Os

[Atkaone]

retro :)

[gabbou94]

42 pentium 2

Woaw