Re: [vox] Linux, Open Source, the Weather Channel, and ATi
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Re: [vox] Linux, Open Source, the Weather Channel, and ATi
Not really odd at all. The weather channel actually runs a Beowulf
cluster just to do weather simulation (climate forecasting) and among
other things, does work for the US Navy with it.
IIRC, there was a time when they were in negotiations with VA for a
similar project with our then Professional Services group (we had
purchased Precision Insight, which at the time had folks like Daryl
Strauss and David Dawes from the XFree86 project).
So the Weather Channel actualy does stuff other than reporting the latest
drizzle occurring in Uzbekistan ;)
z
On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, nbs wrote:
>
> This is a bizarre piece of news, if I ever heard it:
>
> http://www.linuxgames.com/news/index.php3/5698
>
> "... The Weather Channel is funding TG to develop an open source 3D DRI
> driver for the ATI Radeon 8500 graphics card. The driver will be released
> to the XFree86 Project around Q4 of 2002, to be distributed to the public
> in future versions of the XFree86 X Server. ..."
>
>
> The Weather Channel, huh? Odd.
>
>
> -bill!
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