Google hardware in 1997

Here are the Machines

These are both 300 MHz Dual Pentium II Servers with 512MB of RAM. There are 9 9G drives between the two machines. The main search engine is running on these. These were donated by Intel.

IBM RS 6000

This is an IBM donated F50 IBM RS6000 with 4 processors and 512MB of memory. It has 8 9G drives internal.

Original Storage of backrub

The left box has 3 9G drives, and there are 6 4G drives on the right (the original storage for Backrub). These are attached to Google Sun Ultra II.

Original Storage of backrub

This IBM disk expansion box has another 8 9G drives. This was donated by IBM.

Sun Ultra II

This is Google’s faithful Sun Ultra II with dual 200MHz processors, and 256MB of RAM. This was the main machine for the original Backrub system.

Home made Disk Box

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Original Storage of backrub

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Other Equipments

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Backrub’s Platform

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