Google--Finding Needles in a Terabyte Haystack

Speaker: Urs H?zle, Google Inc.

Date: Thursday, November 13, 2003
Location: B-Hive Conference Room, Second Floor, Bldg. 40 (outside the Library)
Goodies: Tea and cookies provided

Google currently processes over 200 million queries per day, searching a multi-terabyte web index for every query with an average response time of less than a quarter of a second with near-100% uptime. In this talk he'll describe the software and hardware infrastructure that makes this performance possible. Come learn how Google models the behavior of a random web surfer, how Google's software determines the 'right' results, and how they harnesses the power of thousands of cheap PCs into a scalable, reliable, high-performance computing system. Come prepared with questions!