beowulf in space Warning: 'WAY OT

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

You asked for it.

about 8 years ago, in response to a need to better and more accurately 
track cattle for a USDA-sponsored entomology research project, Cows In 
Space was born (or borne, as the case may be).  There were lots of 
68030's moooving around the pasture, all reporting back to a head node 
made of a Pentium-I.  All of the primary data was provided by direct 
sequence spread-spectrum signalling at L-Band.  Biasing and additional 
input data was provided by a low-speed VHF datalink.  ALthough the 
general application was NUMA, in fact, all of the processors had a 
uniform architecture and memory distribution.

These were GPS receivers.  On cows.  With differential corrections data 
provided.  For the record, we were able to determine the animals' 
location on a 30-sec interval with sub-bovine accuracy.

Sorry.  It just HAD to be told.

gerry

Dean Johnson wrote:
> Howdy all,
> Is it just me, or does anybody else have the problem when reading the "beowulf in space"
> subject line, you hear that echoey 60's sci-fi movie sound effect? Okay, maybe I need some 
> sleep or something. ;-)
> 
> 	-Dean
> 
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