Facebook Opens Up Its Hardware Secrets

Tue Apr 12 00:06:21 UTC 2011

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

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as  incapable
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.
Soren Kierkegaard