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Land Rover Gears Up For Grid Computing
News Land Rover has replaced the IT system supporting its vehicle design process with an IBM grid computing system in an attempt to save time and cut costs. Land Rover has to perform a computer-generated process called "clash analysis" on every vehicle...
[March 24, 2005, 17:05]
NASA Mars Rover: Visualizing The Red Planet With NVIDIA Quadro Graphics
White Papers Scientists interactively plan rover activities using 3D photorealistic reconstructions of the surface. NASA lands two rovers on Mars and receives photographic image data from the surface. The data transmissions from Mars involve massive amounts of...
[July 31, 2007, 0:00]
VRMars-Spirit - The Red Planet Mars 3D
Downloads Virtual reality astronomy software presenting the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit Mission (the years 2004-2007). See the places visited by the Mars Rover in the way like you were there yourself. It gives an impression of being on the surface of Mars.
[May 13, 2008, 23:01]
Unravelling The Mystery Of Time Computers
Talkback Isnt it strange that when car maker Rover went into administration there was all this talk about trying to save the compnay and those employees that were made redundant were paid by the goverment. The directors of Rover made millions out of the...
[October 28, 2005, 8:57]
Mobile Phone Car Ban Is Debated
News Steering his Range Rover from San Francisco to Mountain View in California, Brian Bogosian has a message for politicians and safety advocates who want to stop drivers from talking on mobile phones: don't tell me what to do.
[July 3, 2001, 13:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Friday 23/1/2004As I type this, I'm watching the clock and anxiously waiting for the next scheduled attempt to communicate with the Mars rover. Good luck in getting the thing back, chaps, and let's hope the second rover lands safely this weekend.
[January 23, 2004, 12:55]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog One story circulating is that the Rover design stems from the day that the scientists had the funding for a previous and much larger mission turned down: as they dejectedly sat around in the lab looking at the 1/8th scale working model on the...
[July 12, 1997, 9:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
News One story circulating is that the Rover design stems from the day that the scientists had the funding for a previous and much larger mission turned down: as they dejectedly sat around in the lab looking at the 1/8th scale working model on the...
[July 12, 1997, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Fourteen degrees South, 175 degrees East, to be exact, where Mars Rover Spirit is patiently sitting out its second winter parked on the Low Ridge Haven outcrop. NASA has agreed to extend the Rover missions for another year from October, so it's...
[August 11, 2006, 19:15]
Taking Graphics Technology To Mars
News An Nvidia-designed graphics system assembled at NASA's control centre collects the thousands of points of terrain data the Rover gathers every minute and assembles them into a 3D representation of the Martian landscape.
[January 26, 2004, 10:40]
NASA Claims Mars Smash Hit
News The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Thursday that during the past month and a half, the total number of visits to its home page, which hosted images and video feeds from the two recent rover landings on Mars, was greater than...
[February 23, 2004, 7:40]
Sun Microsystems Eclipses Purple Sun
News Purple Sun, now called Epitiro, says it took its name from the lyrics "still in the firelight and purple moonlight" from a Led Zeppelin song, "The Rover". Led Zeppelin's The Rover: A small Cardiff-based network service supplier, Purple Sun, has...
[December 1, 2005, 12:20]
C++ Creator: It's Bigger Than Ever
News Sun Microsystems has touted the use of Java in the Mars Rover, but Stroustrup claimed that C++ was also used. For example, C++ was used for scene analysis and route planning in the Mars Rover autonomous driving system, according to Stroustrup.
[April 22, 2005, 14:20]
Bluetooth Technology For The Field Surveyor
White Papers In 1993 Trimble launched the world's first RTK system with an RTK rover. This system, while revolutionary, required up to six cables. In 1997 Trimble released another world first: the 4800 GPS Total Station system, an all-on-the-pole RTK solution...
[August 9, 2005, 0:00]
Open Source Developers Provide 'glimmer Of Hope'
Talkback I was at a presentation at OSCon last summer, where team members of the Mars Rover program demonstrated their software. It's mostly built upon Linux and other open source platforms. So the quote from the person who disagreed actually supports the...
[April 22, 2005, 18:28]
Hackers Could Soon Hold The Remote Control To Your Car
Talkback We are experincing unknown signal jamming and immobilising our series 2 land rover discovery, also our ford transit van. Can you help As soon as these vehicles return to our property they completey immobolise the systems .
[October 25, 2004, 10:49]
Hackers Could Soon Hold The Remote Control To Your Car
Talkback To the person who is having problems with their land rover discovery & transit van. This could be caused by high levels of gamma radiation in your area. Do you live near : A nuclear power station A MOD military base
[October 26, 2004, 11:40]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback It does it better and it also exists in the current Mars rover.Now that's scalability " Bascule whines: "Scalability - 2003 running on 32 processor 8Gb RAM machines is it? NASA run redhat on theirs, why?
[January 30, 2004, 7:04]
South Korea Launches 10,000-school Linux Programme
Talkback The british car industry is gone while the South Koreans produce, with a profit, cars that look very much like the Jaguar and the Rover. Although I am not british I sometimes wonder. Also they seem to understand the andvantage of OSS.
[June 23, 2005, 1:58]
Which Is The Best Desktop Search Tool?
White Papers Longhorn will improve the search function in Windows through the elimination of Rover and the addition of some metatag indexing. Desktop search is the holy grail of personal computing. The user needs to be able to find the exact file he wants, when...
[September 13, 2007, 0:00]
