Comment oh the irony (Score 1) 48
Am I the only one that finds it ironic that the article itself prompts for a ZDnet notification?
Comment PCI (Score 1) 165
FTA: "Essentially, we only have one chance to get this right."
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"The DOR card collects the data from the DOMs and transmits it via a standard PCI bus to a CPU in the DOMhub. From the DOMhub the information is moved to a string processor by TCP/IP Ethernet and to other processors for software triggering and event building. "
Now if they are trying to "get it right the first time" shouldn't they reconsider the PCI bus being phased out? Just a thought...
-C
"The DOR card collects the data from the DOMs and transmits it via a standard PCI bus to a CPU in the DOMhub. From the DOMhub the information is moved to a string processor by TCP/IP Ethernet and to other processors for software triggering and event building. "
Now if they are trying to "get it right the first time" shouldn't they reconsider the PCI bus being phased out? Just a thought...
-C
Submission + - Most Useful OS for Science Education
Clayperion writes: I teach at I high school program for gifted students which emphasizes Math, Science, and Technology. Currently we have two computer labs for the students: A new Programming Lab (all Dell PCs running XP, MS Visual C++, Eclipse, and SolidWorks for programming and CAD) and an old general-purpose lab (all Macs running 10.3, with software ranging from some legacy OS 9 science applications to MathCad). Most of our students eventually pursue graduate degrees in science and engineering, and we would like them have experience with the tools they will find out in industry. As we look to replace the old machines, there has been a push to switch to PCs with XP so that there is only a single platform to support. There are over 5000 machines on the districts network and the IT department is VERY small (less than 10 people), so the fewer hardware and software differences between the machines, the better. Without opening flame war as to which one is "better", I'd like to know what those of you in the science and engineering fields actually use more in your labs (Hardware, OS, Software), so that we can decide which platform to support. It will most likely have to be either XP or OS 10.6 with very restricted permissions to students and teachers, as that is the comfort level of IT and administration, but I'll push for whatever would benefit the students the most.
