Ismenio - Slashdot User

Submission + - DIY Google Street View project?

Submitted by Ismenio on Saturday May 16, 2009 @01:21PM

Ismenio writes: Folks,

Does anyone have any ideas for a do-it-yourself Google Street View like project on the 'cheap'?
I am planning to visit a few places outside the US important to me and would like to be able to set up a site for friends and family to visit and would like to give them the Street View-like experience so that they could navigate, pan and zoom in the areas I have. Though being able to use GPS coordinates would be great, that's certainly something I can do without.

I know I can take pictures and stitch them together to create panoramic views but I would like to be able to also navigate though some streets.
Would it make sense to record it with an HD camera, batch export frames as pictures? Is there any software in the open source community that I can use?

A few links I'm looking at now:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4232286.html
http://www.easypano.com/about-city8.html

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Best regards,

Ismenio

The Supercomputer Race 158

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday September 23, 2008 @07:45PM from the greased-lightning dept.

CWmike writes "Every June and November a new list of the world's fastest supercomputers is revealed. The latest Top 500 list marked the scaling of computing's Mount Everest — the petaflops barrier. IBM's 'Roadrunner' topped the list, burning up the bytes at 1.026 petaflops. A computer to die for if you are a supercomputer user for whom no machine ever seems fast enough? Maybe not, says Richard Loft, director of supercomputing research at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. The Top 500 list is only useful in telling you the absolute upper bound of the capabilities of the computers ... It's not useful in terms of telling you their utility in real scientific calculations. The problem with the rankings: a decades-old benchmark called Linpack, which is Fortran code that measures the speed of processors on floating-point math operations. One possible fix: Invoking specialization. Loft says of petaflops, peak performance, benchmark results, positions on a list — 'it's a little shell game that everybody plays. ... All we care about is the number of years of climate we can simulate in one day of wall-clock computer time. That tells you what kinds of experiments you can do.' State-of-the-art systems today can simulate about five years per day of computer time, he says, but some climatologists yearn to simulate 100 years in a day."

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