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Linux Cluster Supercomputer Performs Surgery on Dog
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.'"
Linux killed a dog? It must have been using ReiserFS, I hear it's a killer file system.
How very appropriate, to have your sight both destroyed and restored by the same man's products!
If you mod me Overrated, you are admitting that you have no penis.
Did they go for yellow dog or puppy?
IranAir Flight 655 never forget!
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...'