Public Interest In Great White Shark Devours Research Site's Servers 57
Lucas123 writes: Katherine, a 14-foot, 2,300lb. Great White Shark, has become so popular with visitors to a research site tracking her daily movements that the site's servers have crashed and remained down for hours. The shark, one of dozens tagged for research by the non-profit global shark tracking project OCEARCH, typically cruises very close to shore up and down the Eastern Seaboard. That has attracted a lot interest from the swimming public. Currently, however, she's heading from Florida's west coast toward Texas. OCEARCH tags sharks with four different technologies to create a three-dimensional image of a shark's activities. "On average, we're collecting 100 data points every second — 8.5 million data points per day."
So how is (Score:1)
Greg Norman these days
In other news (Score:2, Offtopic)
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Or conversely: "Scientist discovers how to serve 8.5 million data points a day with a 386 SX-25 computer using this one weird trick. Hardware vendors hate her"
Re:A news story about a crashed server? (Score:4, Informative)
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Yes, please. Submit a link so we can see the shark being served for ourselves or it didn't happen.
They should have wanted shark servers... (Score:5, Funny)
No surprise... (Score:2)
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Don't you mean the illegals are coming to Texas from Central and South America?
Poetry (Score:2)
It's becuase i wuz thinking that it's so WISE you used the word "DEVOUR" in the title because MUCH LIKE A SHARK MIGHT DEVOUR A HUMAN, so too might the bandwidth of a web server be DEVOURED by excess usage by humans.
I too am shark.
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Dear Mr. Korbulon from Vogon,
Welcome to Earth
Please don't demolish it
We would be in dearth.
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What?! (Score:5, Interesting)
And how posting this in Slashdot is going to help?
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Stress test for the new server, what else?
Poor server (Score:2)
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Illegal in many places due to Necrophilia, Beastiality and Sadism laws?
40 days to Sharknado 2! (Score:2)
will the syfy website crash on it's air date?
in = as, far more interesting (Score:2)
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I think that is how we all read it. I came here wondering how a Shark ate a server.
Re:in = as, far more interesting (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdot? (Score:5, Funny)
I know we don't push the traffic we did in the old days, but so when a site goes down, you think, "Let's Slashdot it too!"
Sharkdotted.
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504 Gateway Time-out
Currently doing my part to slashdot the site. As of 10AM PST it is down.
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Well, /. did jump the shark lately like its beta makeover. :P
Crowd DOSed and now to be slashdotted? nice job (Score:1)
Great idea, find a site that is being unintentionally DDoSd by people wanting to view it then put it on slashdot which has an effect named after it due to the massively deleterious effect linking any website on slashdot has on said sites servers.
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There are 21 comments.
I don't think a Slashdotting is anywhere near what it used to be. In fact, it's a while since I heard of one.
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That's because nobody actually reads the articles anymore. :-P
You're going to need a bigger... (Score:5, Funny)
boat?
Website or Research Server (Score:2)
OK, so has the public facing website been put out of commision (a complete non-story) or has the actual research server been put out of commision putting big gaps in their data?
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This headline... (Score:3)
A 14 foot shark (Score:1)
14 feet, what an evolution jump. Does it have 7 feet on each side? How about legs? Or arms?
100 data ponts per second? (Score:1)
I am curious as to what benefit this resolution provides. Changing the sampling rate to every 2 seconds would probably provide equally sufficient data while halving data rates and doubling transmitter battery life.
100 data ponts per second? (Score:1)
"Changing the sampling rate to every 2 seconds"
If their intention was simply to track its location then yes their sampling is very high. However I assume they are trying to much more than that, tracking how often it changes direction, how steady/erratic its speed is, if it maintains a certain depth, etc.
You're going to need a bigger server. (Score:2)
Obvious joke is obvious.
But still funny.
SEO (Score:2)
SEO (Score:2)
How I understood the title at first: (Score:1)
Data historian? (Score:2)
TFS says 100 data points a second. I presume it's more like 10 sample readings of 10 sensors per second, or some such multiplication.
I want to know more about their data historian software. There's some pretty amazing real-time compression these days, but that's still going to be a good chunk of data.
I could speculate of the software & brand, but don't want to do an unpaid endorsement (or anti-endorsement).