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by morrad 4621 days ago
Seeing as this is the military, I would guess that they have triple redundant systems for some things, but that still is a decent amount of computing power there.
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I once interviewed a guy whose resume implied he played a large part in designing some of these redundant systems for carriers/whatever.

I asked him how he dealt with failover/etc, and said they used master election, and that it was guaranteed to work, and then proceeded to describe exactly a system guaranteed to fail. He had never heard of paxos, and when i described it to him, he was sure it wouldn't work.

Is the "James Kirk" part a joke, or is that the real name of Zumwalt's Captain? Sorry, if this looks blue-eyed, I can't tell that from sarcasm.
The "Regimental Commander" of the military academy boarding school I went to was a James Kirk my freshman year. And his school rank was captain.

EDIT: Actually, the Zumwalt looks promising this way. Just add two nacelles and a saucer section.

EDIT: The Zumwalt bridge looks promising in another way. (Leiji Matsumoto) But instead of the 3 smaller screens, have a single 30x30 foot screen leaning forward at a 45 degree angle.

It's "James A. Kirk" though, not "James Theodore Kirk."
Thanks! I could have sworn the last time I watched Star Wars, he said his middle name was Theodore.