PBS and Sun's SGE do this kind of job management, but for clusters of machines. There's nothing that says you can't have a cluster of 1 machine though.
Good research programmers are hard to find, and places like JPL, Los Alamos and Ames are pretty much always looking for people in this area. They're also on the bleeding edge of research and closely integrated with some of the best grad schools in the country.
I work in academia. My email ends up on things like conference abstracts and journal articles, not to mention the University's on-line directory. I get, on average, 300 emails per day, Over 250 of which are spam. Spam-assassin catches maybe 90% of those.
The debate is being paid for by the private ASU Foundation (which is distinct and separate from the state funded University), mostly with corporate donations. No state funds are being used, so I suspect the lawsuit will be quickly dispatched.
The foundation gets most of it's money from corporate sponsors (SRP, Motorola, etc), and the occasional private individual. Since the money doesn't go directly to the candidates, I can't imagine how it'll violate any campaign finanace laws.
The MAGER experiment aboard MGS pretty much showed that a manned colony on mars is probably never going to happen (or atleast not for a really long time) due to terrible surface radiation.
It is of course possible to shield against this, but you're no longer talking about a mission that'll come in under $100 billion.
I just threw away an external SCSI 5.25" floppy drive. I picked it up for the enclosure ($10) at a local computer graveyard. Had you posted a month ago, I'd have sent you a xmas present.
You need lots of volcanic activity to generate metal ore and deposits. Mars ran out of volcanic activity a really, really long time ago.
The Thermal Emission Spectrometer aboard Mars Surveyor has found nothing to indicate that there are significant metal deposits on the surface of Mars. Doesn't mean they aren't there, they just aren't exposed at the surface.
Second, that image was taken during aerobraking from an altitude of 22,000 kilometers, as opposed to MGS's 400km orbit.
Third, it's a thermal infra-red image, showing surface temperature. Half of the image is being taken on the night-time side of the planet, in the dark. It doesn't show bright and dark regions like most images because it is measuring surface temperature, not brightness.
The interesting parts are how much thermal variation there is in the polar cap, considering it's a solid sheet of CO2 ice, and the temperature variations between the bottoms and tops of some of the craters.
The original image is here. The space.com copy has been shrunk and doesn't show any detail.
We use animated gif because it is universally supported and I have tools handy that produce it. I've never gotten around to tweaking mpeg_encode enough to make it produce anything that didn't look terrible.
Each frame is produced from 1 day's data, which consists of 12 orbits. So we get 12 little strips
spread around the planet and have to fill in the gaps to make something that is viewable and easy to understand. This can of course lead to some visible artifacts.
The images from the 8th and 9th at 90W show some obvious interpolation artifacts (the diagonal lines), but there are probably some clear pockets in there too.
Lots of information here about flares and links to software to predict them, including a statement saying: a de-orbit plan will have to be submitted (by Motorola) to eliminate the satellite constellation.
There is a lot more to a 'real' application that text entry boxes and menu bars.
There are hundreds of commercial and freeware widgets available for Xt/Motif that just don't exist for Qt or GTK. Everything from 3-D data visualization controls to phase of the moon widgets. These are the kind of widgets that take multiple man-years to develop and debug, and commercial software developers rely on.
Until many more of these are available, Motif will continue to be the only viable choice.
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Actually, it's because we don't need any more stinking daylight. Save yours, but we don't want it.
PBS and Sun's SGE do this kind of job
management, but for clusters of machines.
There's nothing that says you can't have
a cluster of 1 machine though.
Good research programmers are hard to find, and places like JPL, Los Alamos and Ames are pretty much always looking for people in this area. They're also on the bleeding edge of research and closely integrated with some of the best grad schools in the country.
Get back to work already.
I work in academia. My email ends up on things like conference abstracts and journal articles, not to mention the University's on-line directory.
I get, on average, 300 emails per day, Over 250 of which are spam. Spam-assassin catches maybe 90% of those.
This is actually part of a very large network of control-it-over-the-internet rovers, called Red Rover. There's a handful listed here:
http://planetary.org/rrgtm/Rrsites.php
The debate is being paid for by the private ASU Foundation (which is distinct and separate from the state funded University), mostly with corporate donations. No state funds are being used, so I suspect the lawsuit will be quickly dispatched.
The foundation gets most of it's money from corporate sponsors (SRP, Motorola, etc), and the occasional private individual. Since the money doesn't go directly to the candidates, I can't imagine how it'll violate any campaign finanace laws.
The MAGER experiment aboard MGS pretty much showed that a manned colony on mars is probably never going to happen (or atleast not for a really long time) due to terrible surface radiation.
It is of course possible to shield against this, but you're no longer talking about a mission that'll come in under $100 billion.
I just threw away an external SCSI 5.25" floppy drive. I picked it up for the enclosure ($10) at a local computer graveyard. Had you posted a month ago, I'd have sent you a xmas present.
-- Bamfarooni
You need lots of volcanic activity to generate metal ore and deposits. Mars ran out of volcanic activity a really, really long time ago.
The Thermal Emission Spectrometer aboard Mars Surveyor has found nothing to indicate that there are significant metal deposits on the surface of Mars. Doesn't mean they aren't there, they just aren't exposed at the surface.
Not exactly it's value, but you can get used components from ebay to build a 2x366 E3000 for about $1500.
Complete boxes for around $2k.
YMMV
Hmm.. instrinsic domain name on that first url. Works on my machine, but probably not on yours.
Lets try again.
No significant dust storms.
First, there are no significant dust storms on Mars right now. It hasn't been very dusty for a month now.
Second, that image was taken during aerobraking from an altitude of 22,000 kilometers, as opposed to MGS's 400km orbit.
Third, it's a thermal infra-red image, showing surface temperature. Half of the image is being taken on the night-time side of the planet, in the dark. It doesn't show bright and dark regions like most images because it is measuring surface temperature, not brightness.
The interesting parts are how much thermal variation there is in the polar cap, considering it's a solid sheet of CO2 ice, and the temperature variations between the bottoms and tops of some of the craters.
The original image is here. The space.com copy has been shrunk and doesn't show any detail.
This baby has two spectrometers
Three, actually. The THEMIS instrument contains both a 100m IR spectrometer and an 18m VIS/Near-IR spectrometer.
Best of all... We're looking for more programmers.
So, the end result: The jobs exist, you're just not looking in the right places.
Each frame is produced from 1 day's data, which consists of 12 orbits. So we get 12 little strips spread around the planet and have to fill in the gaps to make something that is viewable and easy to understand. This can of course lead to some visible artifacts.
The images from the 8th and 9th at 90W show some obvious interpolation artifacts (the diagonal lines), but there are probably some clear pockets in there too.
http://www.satellite.eu.org/sat/vs ohp/iridium.html
There is a lot more to a 'real' application that text entry boxes and menu bars.
There are hundreds of commercial and freeware widgets available for Xt/Motif that just don't exist for Qt or GTK. Everything from 3-D data visualization controls to phase of the moon widgets. These are the kind of widgets that take multiple man-years to develop and debug, and commercial software developers rely on.
Until many more of these are available, Motif will continue to be the only viable choice.