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Public Interest In Great White Shark Devours Research Site's Servers

Posted by Soulskill on from the we're-gonna-need-a-bigger-load-balancer dept.

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."

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  1. They should have wanted shark servers... by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...with frigging optical fiber connection!

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  2. What?! by Extremus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And how posting this in Slashdot is going to help?

  3. Re:A news story about a crashed server? by barlevg · · Score: 3, Informative

    Presumably they didn't want to pile the Slashdot Effect on top of their server woes. But a quick google search turns up: http://www.ocearch.org/profile/katharine/

  4. Slashdot? by mfh · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  5. You're going to need a bigger... by Bongo · · Score: 4, Funny

    boat?

  6. Re:in = as, far more interesting by dragon-file · · Score: 4, Funny

    One byte at a time.

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