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> This always makes me wonder what kind of hardware the boys at Google are
> running :)

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http://www.cs.rochester.edu/sosp2003/papers/p125-ghemawat.pdf

That's at least a starting point, and an interesting read regardless. (Plenty of interesting issues
in clustering, transaction/isolation handling, recovery, etc.)

-Unordained