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Re:Stratus: Servers that won’t quit – The 24 year running co... by intrasight on Sunday January 29, 2017 @11:26PM (#13518654)
>Nobody wants to be that guy who has to rewrite the nuclear power plant software.

Nobody is allowed to rewrite the nuclear power plan software. My first job was at Westinghouse Nuclear Division. Those Fortran libraries were off-limits in terms of changes.

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Re:Stratus: Servers that won’t quit – The 24 year running co... by StreamBright on Monday January 30, 2017 @04:22AM (#13519638)
No surprise, same story in energy balance circle management to calculate the optimal schedule.
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Re:Stratus: Servers that won’t quit – The 24 year running co... by dfc on Monday January 30, 2017 @10:04AM (#13521689)
> energy balance circle management

WTF? What is energy balance circle management?

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Re:Stratus: Servers that won’t quit – The 24 year running co... by StreamBright on Monday January 30, 2017 @11:13AM (#13522355)
When you are creating a schedule for all the power plants taking into consideration predictions for home and industrial users and trading as well. There can be domestic and foreign trading involved as well. Not sure how it is called in English.
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Re:Stratus: Servers that won’t quit – The 24 year running co... by erelde on Monday January 30, 2017 @02:33AM (#13519287)
Is there a good move here? Update or not?
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