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Quake-Catcher Aims to be Largest Distributed Seismometer Network
Nature is reporting that a new distributed computing application is looking to monitor earthquake data using the accelerometer in many computing devices. In the long run, "Quake-Catcher" will hopefully be fast enough to give warning before major earthquakes. "If it works, it will be the cheapest seismic network on the planet and could operate in any country. It wouldn't be as sensitive as traditional networks of seismometers, but Lawrence says that's not the point. 'If you have only two sensors in an area, you have to have a perfect system. If you have 15 sensors in a system it [can] be less perfect. One hundred, one thousand, ten thousand -- your need for the system to be perfect becomes much smaller,' he says. 'That's really our approach -- just to have massive numbers.'"
How many more server mods do we need for Quake?
Except that you're supposed to shake a Wiimote when using it. Every new game that came out would level cities around the globe.
I just read Slashdot for the articles.
Wow! Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!!