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Hurricane Simulator to Destroy Full Size Building

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ka-whump dept.

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. "

22 of 162 comments (clear)

  1. Yes, But... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it run on Lin...

    Dammit, you stole my line!

    1. Re:Yes, but... by minginqunt · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, but John C. Dvorak has heard rumors that it will run Mac OS X.

  2. Yes, but... by LoonyMike · · Score: 5, Funny

    does it run Vista?

  3. Yeah... by insanarchist · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, but can it run... er... nevermind.

  4. Listen by Provocateur · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you guys in Western Ontario want a hurricane so bad why don't you just come live here in Key West, Florida?
     

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    1. Re:Listen by houghi · · Score: 5, Funny

      Because they still want to be able to vote.

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    2. Re:Listen by fobbman · · Score: 4, Funny

      Canadian votes are just as valid as South Florida votes in our election process. Cmon down.

  5. Those CPU stats in full... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Those CPU stats in full... by MrFlibbs · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes, but this doesn't change the fact that your system *blows* ...

    2. Re:Those CPU stats in full... by Kenshin · · Score: 4, Funny

      If you're so smart, maybe you can reprogram it to *suck*.

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    3. Re:Those CPU stats in full... by rrohbeck · · Score: 2, Funny

      Reminds me of a training I held in Germany at HP years ago. When we discussed the cooling of the box and the fan, a young female HP employee asked "Does it blow or suck?" It was really hard to keep my face under control.

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    4. Re:Those CPU stats in full... by TubeSteak · · Score: 3, Funny
      Ways to make it suck:
      • Make the plus signs negative
      • Port the software to JAVA
      • Change all the 0's to 1's and the 1's to 0's
      • Put the source code on wikipedia
      • A million monkeys with a million typewriters...
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  6. I feel a great disturbance in the force... by insanarchist · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...as if millions of nerds suddenly cried out, "yeah, but does it run...", and were suddenly silenced.

  7. Take it to Texas by doobie22 · · Score: 3, Funny

    New form of Execution for when it's all televised.

  8. I for one .... by fernandoh26 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our hurricane-simulating, house-destroying, Linux-running overlords.

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  9. Re:Doubts... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  10. Hurricane simulaiton in Canada by kaufmanmoore · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hurricane simulation in Canada, The Carolina Hurricanes in North Carolina winning the Stanley Cup, the world is coming to an end.

    1. Re:Hurricane simulaiton in Canada by christian.elliott · · Score: 2, Funny

      That's what the people in Raleigh thought...

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  11. all i want to know is... by Connie_Lingus · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...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.

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  12. In a related News: CompTIA by Coeurderoy · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  13. Re: You make a good point by hahiss · · Score: 4, Funny


    Well, what I want to know is when science can evict variance; what are tenant's rights in scienceland?

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  14. NEWS FLASH from the MS FUD Dept. ! by Ihlosi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Linux destroys buildings (and drowns kittens and puppies, too) !