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Linux Cluster Supercomputer Performs Surgery on Dog

Posted by Soulskill on from the hasn't-quite-mastered-fetch-though dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In April, the Lonestar supercomputer, a Dell Linux Cluster with 5,840 processors at the Texas Advanced Computing Center in Austin, performed laser surgery on a dog in Houston without the intervention of a surgeon. The article describes the process: 'The treatment itself is broken into four stages: 1) Lonestar instructs the laser to heat the domain with a non-damaging calibration pulse; 2) the thermal MRI acquires baseline images of the heating and cooling of the patient's tissue for model calibration; 3) Lonestar inputs this patient-specific information and recomputes the optimal power profile for the rest of the treatments; and 4) surgery begins, with remote visualizations and evolving predictions continuing throughout the procedure.'"

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  1. New Robot Overlords by backtick · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, how about bowing down before a cluster of those? Heheh. Mixing the memes, sorry...

  2. Re:The dog died. by crackp1pe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linux killed a dog? It must have been using ReiserFS, I hear it's a killer file system.

  3. Re:Should have read... by MyLongNickName · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please tag "linuxkillsdogs". The dog died. If this were a Microsoft product, the dog would have lived. You open source freaks are just evil.

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  4. Re:The dog died. by Phyrexicaid · · Score: 2, Funny

    And then they installed Linux on it.

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  5. Re:The dog died. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Lonestar may not be able to successfully perform surgery, but I hear it's pretty good at jamming Dark Helmet's radar.

  6. Re:Awesome by Free+the+Cowards · · Score: 4, Funny

    How very appropriate, to have your sight both destroyed and restored by the same man's products!

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  7. Re:The dog died. by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did they go for yellow dog or puppy?

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  8. Re:The dog died. by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 2, Funny

    Look on the bright side: The cancer died too.

  9. Bad analogy by jonaskoelker · · Score: 2, Funny

    Jokes about killer file systems are like cars with missing passenger seats.

  10. It's not a Beowulf Cluster by russlar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does this qualify as a Beowoof Cluster?

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  11. Re:The dog died. by MiniMike · · Score: 4, Funny

    It was in a EULA printed on the back of a doggy treat: 'By eating this buscuit, you agree to be bound and dissected by the terms of this agreement...'

  12. Re:The dog died. But he is a hero. by Skrapion · · Score: 2, Funny

    The surgery was done with lasers, not exploding batteries.

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