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Friday, July 11, 2008

Behind the Scenes at the Internet Archive

This article is ripped in its entirety from HERE so we shouldn't let it lie here long without some kind of reversed charges... but I just thought it amazing site and photo essay... [posted by rajbot on December 7th, 2007 ]

When you are building a digital library to provide Universal Access to Human Knowledge, how to you hold all the data?

You start with a few racks of machines to hold the data using redundant storage:

The red boxes are built by Capricorn. Each one is a 1U half-depth low-power server that can hold four 1TB hard drives:

Add a bunch of homemade routers:

And some BigIron: (this thing pushed 6Gb/s today!)

Now you need to power it up:
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And cool it down:
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And fill it with books:
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For some reason, you need a 1980’s-era Connection Machine:
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Finally, no Archive is complete without a world-class Linux kernel hacker:
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(Retrieved today at 5:20 AM for critical review -- http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2007/12/07/behind-the-scenes-at-the-internet-archive/ )

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