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Hurricane Simulator to Destroy Full Size Building
Anonymous Coward writes "This is a shameless plug, but I thought Slashdot readers might be interested in the hurricane simulator system the company I work for (Cambridge Consultants) helped develop for the University of Western Ontario. The BBC article is light on the kind of technical details Slashdot readers enjoy, so here are some titbits. The servomotors for the 100+ valves are controlled over an IPv4, gigabit Ethernet network connected to an Athlon dual-core AMD64 PC. The entire real-time control system runs on this machine, utilizing well above 90% of each processor core, and roughly 30% of the network capacity. The sampling frequency of the control system places a huge demand on the machine, with about 70,000 context switches taking place every second. Yes, it runs Linux. "
Does it run on Lin...
Dammit, you stole my line!
does it run Vista?
Yeah, but can it run... er... nevermind.
If you guys in Western Ontario want a hurricane so bad why don't you just come live here in Key West, Florida?
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
10% idle
89.95% kernel (switching threads)
0.05% user (generating 70,000 "blow" commands per second)
Hurricanes may blow, but abusing thread-level concurrancy definitely sucks.
...as if millions of nerds suddenly cried out, "yeah, but does it run...", and were suddenly silenced.
New form of Execution for when it's all televised.
I, for one, welcome our hurricane-simulating, house-destroying, Linux-running overlords.
Chums up, let's do this!
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the guys doing the experiments didn't think of that, good thing you happened to be here to set them straight.
Hurricane simulation in Canada, The Carolina Hurricanes in North Carolina winning the Stanley Cup, the world is coming to an end.
...is the source GPLed? It would be fun to add some random hacks, like simulating a pickup truck smashing through the roof, on this puppy.
never bring a twinkie to a food fight.
In a related News CompTIA warns governments against Linux: Runing Linux is proved to destroy Full sized buildings under various usage situations.
This proves that Linux can be used by Terorists, drug dealers that want to push competitors out and various other nefarious evildoer.
A member of CompTIA Steve B. indicated that Linux can even get chairs to fly around.
Well, what I want to know is when science can evict variance; what are tenant's rights in scienceland?
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." - H.L. Mencken
Linux destroys buildings (and drowns kittens and puppies, too) !
is that you designed a gigantic hair dryer that instead of an on/off switch uses a powerful and expensive computer? That is the kind of thinking we like at Microsoft! We need people like you! If you have no problem in waking up in the morning knowing that 50 milion people hate you and you share the same passion as we do, that is listening to the tormented screams and howls of our products' users, drop us a line or two. A glorious career awaits! We might even overlook that unhealthy linux thing you had ... allthrough we'd prefer if you turned out to be a sick, children molesting bastard instead.