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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. "

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

    Does it run on Lin...

    Dammit, you stole my line!

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

    does it run Vista?

  3. 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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  4. 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* ...

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.