Damn. _Almost_ makes me wish I was still in the USN. In any case, its good to see the military making good decisions about IT in light of this previous fiasco:
Software glitches leave Navy Smart Ship dead in the water: The US Navy's so-call "Smart Ship technology" left the Aegis missile cruiser USS Yorktown dead in the water off the coast of Cape Charles, Va. for several hours. The shutdown of the ship's propulsion was credited to a database overflow in a Windows NT system. The crash was caused by the inability of the OS to properly handle division by zero. Said Anthony DiGiorgio, a civilian engineer with the Atlantic Fleet Technical Support Center, "Using Windows NT, which is known to have some failure modes, on a warship is similar to hoping that luck will be in our favor." The Navy is still expected to spend $138 million expanding the "Smart Ship" program to the entire Aegis class, and to other ships in the fleet. (Government Computer News, 13 July 1998) John Hebert -----Original Message----- From: Dustin Puryear To: [email protected] Sent: 8/7/03 3:47 PM Subject: [brlug-general] Fwd: [Nolug] Linux in US Navy submarines >http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/news/2003-08-06.shtml >"United States Navy submarines utilize on-board HPC clusters for the >realtime image processing. These systems are revised and upgraded on >a rotational basis. Lockheed Martin has chosen to move with the Apple >Xserves and Yellow Dog Linux. This combination provides a solution >twice as dense, less power consumptive, and higher performance than >the previous solution at a similar cost." > >-- >+---------------------------------------------------------------+ >| Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | >| Jefferson, LA USA | >| | >| "Man, I'm pretty. Hoo Hah!" | >| Johnny Bravo | >+---------------------------------------------------------------+ > > >___________________ >Nolug mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Puryear Information Technology, LLC <http://www.puryear-it.com> Providing expertise in the management, integration, and security of Windows and UNIX systems, networks, and applications. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
