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Public Interest In Great White Shark Devours Research Site's Servers
Lucas123 writes: Katherine, a 14-foot, 2,300lb. Great White Shark, has become so popular with visitors to a research site tracking her daily movements that the site's servers have crashed and remained down for hours. The shark, one of dozens tagged for research by the non-profit global shark tracking project OCEARCH, typically cruises very close to shore up and down the Eastern Seaboard. That has attracted a lot interest from the swimming public. Currently, however, she's heading from Florida's west coast toward Texas. OCEARCH tags sharks with four different technologies to create a three-dimensional image of a shark's activities. "On average, we're collecting 100 data points every second — 8.5 million data points per day."
Greg Norman these days
Where is the link to the site?
...with frigging optical fiber connection!
Ezekiel 23:20
With the present economy, everyone is coming from the east coast to Texas. :)
It's becuase i wuz thinking that it's so WISE you used the word "DEVOUR" in the title because MUCH LIKE A SHARK MIGHT DEVOUR A HUMAN, so too might the bandwidth of a web server be DEVOURED by excess usage by humans.
I too am shark.
And how posting this in Slashdot is going to help?
I love sharks and marine biology, but I think posting a link on Slashdot to a server that has already been crashing is like beating a dead horse.
Here's how a scientist researching great white sharks is serving out 8.5 million data points a day with a 386 SX-25 computer. Her major secret? She discovered the "turbo" button.
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
will not help.
will the syfy website crash on it's air date?
The headline should change 'in' to 'as'.
I know we don't push the traffic we did in the old days, but so when a site goes down, you think, "Let's Slashdot it too!"
Sharkdotted.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
Let's put it on the front page of Slashdot. That'll fix the issue I'm sure.
It's great to realize that Slashdot has an icon specifically devoted to sharks.
Great idea, find a site that is being unintentionally DDoSd by people wanting to view it then put it on slashdot which has an effect named after it due to the massively deleterious effect linking any website on slashdot has on said sites servers.
Back in the early 90s, not only was there no internet to research things on, but we also barely had any books on Great Whites.
boat?
OK, so has the public facing website been put out of commision (a complete non-story) or has the actual research server been put out of commision putting big gaps in their data?
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
would have been much more interesting minus the first three words.
14 feet, what an evolution jump. Does it have 7 feet on each side? How about legs? Or arms?
This is not the sig you're looking for.
Outreach:
http://xkcd.com/585/
Write an app, or some javascript and push out a single stream of data over IGMP.
The load on the server will never change regardless of how many clients are registered for the stream.
I am curious as to what benefit this resolution provides. Changing the sampling rate to every 2 seconds would probably provide equally sufficient data while halving data rates and doubling transmitter battery life.
"I'm a humble person really,
I'm actually much greater than I think I am"
Once again we get a stupid summary that lacks the most essential information. Why is there no direct link to te research site's servers? I want to click on the link in order to see whether it is really (still) crashed and what kind of error it shows ('broken pipe'?). And I want to see the freakin' sharks!
Also, how do the scientists look like? Is there a female humanoid scientist named "Katherine", too?
but the Great White effect?
Obvious joke is obvious.
But still funny.
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
I realy dig the SEO that's being employed in this headline, considering the recent story of a large great white shark being physically eaten by an unknown (probably a larger shark.)
*really, actually.
"Changing the sampling rate to every 2 seconds"
If their intention was simply to track its location then yes their sampling is very high. However I assume they are trying to much more than that, tracking how often it changes direction, how steady/erratic its speed is, if it maintains a certain depth, etc.
I'd be pretty pissed off too if I was shot/stabled/darted with all these extra objects.
Way to go, you were popular for the 5 seconds i waited to see if it was going to load.
"The public shows interest in the great white shark, who devours servers installed on research sites" I know it's not completely grammatically sound but...
TFS says 100 data points a second. I presume it's more like 10 sample readings of 10 sensors per second, or some such multiplication.
I want to know more about their data historian software. There's some pretty amazing real-time compression these days, but that's still going to be a good chunk of data.
I could speculate of the software & brand, but don't want to do an unpaid endorsement (or anti-endorsement).
I wrote tools that capture 10B (as in billion) data points per day for a set of 5000 servers world-wide. Ok. That is more than 1000x as many data points per day. Bragging rights!