altavista.digital.com

[Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>]

>From a friend at work.  Marginal crypto relevance but useful for alerting
those who think public mailing lists and Usenet are one-time pads. :)

>A friend of mine at Digital implemented the Alta Vista search engine.
>Here's the configuration he's working with today, with plans for scaling
>as necessary.
>
>>The web index is built and queried by a two processor 300MHz Alpha.
>>There's 2GBytes of RAM and 200GBytes of disc on RAID controllers.
>>We'll have to expand if load really takes off.     There are other,
>>smaller machines doing the HTTP server, the news index, the news spool,
>>and the web robot.
	/r$