On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 12:46:41 -0700 (PDT), Michael Wallis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Just because you have access to a hammer doesn't make everything into
>> a nail...
>
>I understand and mostly agree. I think Randall was the big proponent
Me? I don't care.
>of this as a means to generate flight profiles for every second of
>flight for each scenario of 1, 2, 3, or 4 engines out (or was it every
>0.1 seconds?). I think I mentioned at the time that in the latter case
>it does not so much fly as plummet, but he wanted to know WHERE it was
>going to plummet. Something we could file with FAA.
I'm no code warrior, but many ERPS members are, and when I said I
wanted all these sims run for FAA, they jumped on distributed
computing as the solution.
Me, I don't care what the tool is. I just want the data. If we do it
like we have in the past, I'll write it BASIC and run it on my old
Pentium. When I report that I'm doing this, a programmer will tell me
I'm being stupid, demand my code, port it to C, and run it on a
superserver. That's fine. Data's data.
ERPS@Home is a proposed solution in search of a problem. It's never
been implemented because our IT budget lags Moore's law by quite a
bit, and the project as we can afford to build it never has enough
performance to justify spending the money.
-R
--
"When I want your opinion, I'll issue you one."
-- Clay C. Chaffee, SSgt USMC
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