Week 9: Google Cluster Architecture

Lecture notes:
Google Cluster Architecture - Lecture slides (6 per page)
Supplemental notes:
Web Search for a Planet: The Google Cluster Architecture, Luiz André Barroso, Jeffrey Dean, Urs Hölzle, Google, Inc.
The definitive paper
Our new search index: Caffeine, The Official Google Blog
GFS: Evolution on Fast-forward, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Sean Qunlan, Association for Computing Machinery, August 2009
Google search index splits with MapReduce: Welds Bigtable to file system 'Colossus', Cade Metz, The Register, September 2010
Google File System II: Dawn of the Multiplying Master Nodes: A sequel two years in the making, Cade Metz, The Register, August 2009
Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web, Steven Levy, Wired Magazine, March 2010.
Buzzwords:
DNS-based load balancing, hardware load balancer, google web servers, inverted index, index shards, document identifiers (docids), document servers, merging.