Linux Cluster Supercomputer Performs Surgery on Dog

An anonymous reader writes "In April, the Lonestar supercomputer, a Dell Linux Cluster with 5,840 processors at the Texas Advanced Computing Center in Austin, performed laser surgery on a dog in Houston without the intervention of a surgeon. The article describes the process: 'The treatment itself is broken into four stages: 1) Lonestar instructs the laser to heat the domain with a non-damaging calibration pulse; 2) the thermal MRI acquires baseline images of the heating and cooling of the patient's tissue for model calibration; 3) Lonestar inputs this patient-specific information and recomputes the optimal power profile for the rest of the treatments; and 4) surgery begins, with remote visualizations and evolving predictions continuing throughout the procedure.'"

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[backtick]

Wow, how about bowing down before a cluster of those? Heheh. Mixing the memes, sorry...

Re:The dog died.

[crackp1pe]

Linux killed a dog? It must have been using ReiserFS, I hear it's a killer file system.

Re:Should have read...

[MyLongNickName]

Please tag "linuxkillsdogs". The dog died. If this were a Microsoft product, the dog would have lived. You open source freaks are just evil.

Re:The dog died.

[Phyrexicaid]

And then they installed Linux on it.

Re:The dog died.

[Anonymous Coward]

The Lonestar may not be able to successfully perform surgery, but I hear it's pretty good at jamming Dark Helmet's radar.

Re:Awesome

[Free the Cowards]

How very appropriate, to have your sight both destroyed and restored by the same man's products!

Re:The dog died.

[RiotingPacifist]

Did they go for yellow dog or puppy?

Re:The dog died.

[Tubal-Cain]

Look on the bright side: The cancer died too.

Bad analogy

[jonaskoelker]

Jokes about killer file systems are like cars with missing passenger seats.

It's not a Beowulf Cluster

[russlar]

Does this qualify as a Beowoof Cluster?

Re:The dog died.

[MiniMike]

It was in a EULA printed on the back of a doggy treat: 'By eating this buscuit, you agree to be bound and dissected by the terms of this agreement...'

Re:The dog died. But he is a hero.

[Skrapion]

The surgery was done with lasers, not exploding batteries.