Most of these accidents and failures were not the result of lack of money or due to operator error. In this case, I doubt it was a simple as forgetting to push a button on a control panel. This is not an excuse, but a reasonable explanation for a whole range of accidents involving complex systems.
Here's a link to a paper (12 Mb pdf) written by a friend of mine during his studies. Unfortunately he died earlier this year in a car accident caused by a drunk driver.
"This paper primarily deals with the possibilities and problems aerospace scientists, designers, architects and others encountered during the latter part of the twentieth century when designing and planning a Martian base for the near future."
Seems like there's always someone capable of turning no matter what post into a Beowulf cluster issue. What if some Alien Intelligence read Slashdot...they must think that Beowulfs are as common as...well...webbed fingers.:-)
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Charles Perrow has an excellent analysis of those type of accidents in Nuclear Plants, Petrochemical industries, Aircraft & Airways, Dams etc.
(Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies, by Charles Perrow, Basic Books, NY, 1984.) http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~piccard/entropy/perrow. html
Most of these accidents and failures were not the result of lack of money or due to operator error. In this case, I doubt it was a simple as forgetting to push a button on a control panel. This is not an excuse, but a reasonable explanation for a whole range of accidents involving complex systems.
Amazing how the USA thinks they are ahead of everyone else... ;)
Strange indeed...with Andrew Tridgell being Australian and all...;)
Tabbed browsing rules bigtime...once you're used to it, you'll never want anything else.
"This paper primarily deals with the possibilities and problems aerospace scientists, designers, architects and others encountered during the latter part of the twentieth century when designing and planning a Martian base for the near future."
http://213.84.201.236/HarDecher/indexHar.html
Seems like there's always someone capable of turning no matter what post into a Beowulf cluster issue. What if some Alien Intelligence read Slashdot...they must think that Beowulfs are as common as...well...webbed fingers. :-)