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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.'"
I for one welcome our new shark-controlling surgical supercomputer overlords.
I'm waiting for a "-1 somepeoplejustshouldn'tgetmodprivileges" meta-moderation.
Only because we, as a species, don't have the balls to subject ourselves to stupid experiments. We force other living creatures to do it for use.
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
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I'm just wondering what those missing steps are, and how they'll be filled. Perhaps the Chinese can experiment on prisoners or something.