Google often keep quiet when asked about the secret service architecture as the best search engine in the world. But a few days ago as quoted from Cnet.com Google reveals little about the origin of the server architecture.

While most companies buy servers built up from top vendors like Dell, HP, IBM or Sun Microsystems, Google currently has thousands of servers and even designing and building their own servers as a server assembly as we used to do when assembling a computer from being sold separately peripheral.

Google’s first server is a computer with a 3.5 inch thick which is used divided into 2 shelf, 2 processor, 2 hard drives, and eight memory slots which is planted on the accompanying motherboard gigabyte x86 processor 2’s AMD and Intel.

The most surprising is the source of energy currently spend 250 kilowatts to 1.160 once the server using 12-volt batteries as backup power when there is a problem with the source voltage. This may sound strange, even those who have been running on Google’s system as a worker not only surprised by the architecture of a battery backup power that is used by Google, but the fact that the Google has made this a secret for several years. Even this kind of architectural design has been applied for seven generations starting in 2005 until now.

It is confirmed on the objectives of this system implementation, the concept of resource conservation problems of electrical energy that was the main reason. Even with the implementation of the system, Google claims it has saved operational costs that are not little. The results of Google research when compared with the use of uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), battery usage will save as much as 8% more efficient than UPS, which is approaching 99% efficiency. Even the use of batteries as backup power is claimed there is no energy wasted in vain. So believe in yourself that your former Google only runs on 12 volt battery power.

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