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From an article by Matt Loney at ZDNet:

* Over four billion Web pages, each an average of 10KB, all fully indexed

* Up to 2,000 PCs in a cluster

* Over 30 clusters

* 104 interface languages including Klingon and Tagalog

* One petabyte of data in a cluster -- so much that hard disk error rates of 10-15 begin to be a real issue

* Sustained transfer rates of 2Gbps in a cluster

* An expectation that two machines will fail every day in each of the larger clusters

* No complete system failure since February 2000

And that was before they boosted the page count to over 8 billion. (Thanks to Hart Hooton for the link.)