Week 9: Google Cluster Architecture
- Lecture notes:
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Google Cluster Architecture - Lecture slides
(6 per page)
- Supplemental notes:
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- Web Search for a Planet: The Google Cluster Architecture,
Luiz André Barroso, Jeffrey Dean, Urs Hölzle, Google, Inc.
- The definitive paper
- Our new search index: Caffeine,
The Official Google Blog
- GFS: Evolution on Fast-forward,
Marshall Kirk McKusick, Sean Qunlan, Association for Computing Machinery, August 2009
- Google search index splits with MapReduce: Welds Bigtable to file system 'Colossus',
Cade Metz, The Register, September 2010
- Google File System II: Dawn of the Multiplying Master Nodes: A sequel two years in the making,
Cade Metz, The Register, August 2009
- Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web,
Steven Levy, Wired Magazine, March 2010.
- Buzzwords:
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DNS-based load balancing, hardware load balancer, google web servers, inverted index,
index shards, document identifiers (docids), document servers, merging.