All I can say is wow. I had my first job interview today, at a company that does computer integration with radiology equipment, as well as software. I saw some of the most incredible hardware and software today that I think I've ever seen. The monitor they showed me alone retails for over 20,000$ American - 5 megapixels a piece, and the normal setup uses 2-5 of them. No scanlines were visible on the monitors, period. All networking save for very end user stuff is done with fiber. It was like a geek paradise.
The software was like something straight out of star trek. With monitors like that, and the ultra high def images that the radiology equipment creates, it was like looking at the inside of the body straight on. Some of the picture series (I think it was MRI's?) can be converted into fully 3-dimensional structures on the fly that can be explored. You can crop out things, like bone. It was abeso-freaking-lutely incredible. Easily the coolest technology I have ever seen in my entire life... And I might get a job offer to play with it all day long....
I think I need to change my slacks, because my inner geek just exploded all over inside of them.
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haha, good luck! It sounds like a dream job!
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All networking save for very end user stuff is done with fiber
Silliest thing ever. They should just light $100 bills on fire.
Good luck though!
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I agree to some extent, but when you have an entire hospital network pulling from one of two NAS's, and every picture is 5+ megapixels, and they can come in sets of 500+, it starts to make sense. Thats a lot of info which needs transferred rapidly through the backbone of the network.
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Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
I agree to some extent, but when you have an entire hospital network pulling from one of two NAS's, and every picture is 5+ megapixels, and they can come in sets of 500+, it starts to make sense. Thats a lot of info which needs transferred rapidly through the backbone of the network.
Sure, but then choked down to 1000MB (or really probably often 100) at the end point?
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Well, its a web based client so my guess is that most of it never has to leave the servers in its high res form unless abesolutely needed. Until I know more about the place I really can't say what their reasoning was.
And yeah, I'm wondering about playing Warcraft III in the office... though half the guys who work there are Korean, which means I'll get slaughtered. Yay ping <1!
And yeah, I'm wondering about playing Warcraft III in the office... though half the guys who work there are Korean, which means I'll get slaughtered. Yay ping <1!
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I agree to some extent, but when you have an entire hospital network pulling from one of two NAS's, and every picture is 5+ megapixels, and they can come in sets of 500+, it starts to make sense. Thats a lot of info which needs transferred rapidly through the backbone of the network.
Sure, but then choked down to 1000MB (or really probably often 100) at the end point?
I assumed by "very end user" stuff, he meant like plugging your laptop into a random port to read your email or something. Presumably, the ultra-super-duper systems with the multiple giginormous monitors showing high definition images of the inside of people's bodies are connected with fiber.
Um. You're also aware that most fiber is "choked down" to 1000Mb anyway right? That's pretty much the highest single line rate you're going to manage right now. Higher rates are obtained by bundling/trunking a number of those lines.
It's not throwing away money. Sites don't buy that level of gear unless they actually need it. Why would they?
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Secret vendor kickback checks. Duh! I thought everyone knew that!
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Secret vendor kickback checks. Duh! I thought everyone knew that!
If the kickback checks result in the cost of a true-fiber connection being cheaper then a slower alternative, then it's also not throwing money away... ;)
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