Well starships have triple redundant systems in the Traveller Universe so I have no problem at all with the Scout Services principal data depositary having a lot of redundancy built in. The systems would also be capable of doing mass correlations using that enormous data. Then there are the black ops and research projects which could also have their data stored here.
Antony
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Subject: Re: [Traveller_TNE] Re: Traveller Virus (Puppeteer)
Standalone single machine... maybe for a non essential system. Anything where they really want to make sure it doesn't go down or lose data, they get big... Fast. Think about it... To have no single point of failure you need double of everything from power supply to CPU to main board. Clusters designed for heavy load you could be talking dozens. Redundant storage OS usually a separate box or two at least, particularly if it needs to upgradeable and maintainable without going down.
Then you need power SOURCES. Ideally at least two separate feeds but likely a big UPS battery bank also with redundancy and probably a manual generator or two on top of all that...
I could buy the machine itself being a shoebox... But dozens of shoe boxes is more like it. with a bunch of redundancy and fall safe assumed, I still don't find Traveller mainframe conceptions entirely out of place... At least for a cruci al application like a starship
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DEREK STANLEY wrote:
Sadly at the rate we're going that computer would have been the size of a shoe box. Its much less impressive than a great cavernous hall filled with random flashing lights and the humm of electricity.
While I have yet to look it up someone told me that the phone in my hand has more processing power than all of NASA did when they put a man on the moon. If true I find that at once aweinspiring and terrifying.
Derek Stanley
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On 2012-06-16, at 7:14, "Antony Farrell" <> wrote:
The one that got me was the Virus that infected the Reference network which
had at least one mainframe dedicated to every world in the Imperium, talk
about a super god complex.
Antony