Google My other computer is a data center

Wednesday 1st February, 20:15
St Catz JCR Lecture Theatre

"My other computer is a data center" - The warehouse-scale computing infrastructure at Google

Christoph Best, Software Engineer, Google

Google's mission, to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful, is simple, but it entails running a large number of very different applications from web search and advertising over video, geo and commerce to enterprise. All these activities are supported by a single underlying computing infrastructure: Google's worldwide data centers.

In this talk, I will try to give an impressions how it is to work at Google directly which such a unique infrastructure, and what its implications for computer science could be, with an emphasis on large-scale data processing.

Google have kindly offered to provide free drinks afterwards. They have also provided us with some Google T-Shirts to give away!

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