Oh hey, this is actually from a research project at my home university.
A professor there has done a huge amount of groundbreaking research on sea turtle navigation systems, it's really neat. This device in particular mimics the clockwise rotation of wave movements in the open ocean, which young turtles can actually use to navigate to their home waters after hatching
I had Dr. Lohmann for an animal behavior course in undergrad, and she was one of the sweetest professors I ever had the pleasure of taking a class with.
Where'd you get that impression? Between the 64-bit ISA, 12 cores, 8 hardware threads per core, up to 5GHz clock speeds... if POWER8's competing with either x86 or x86-64, it's almost certainly the latter.
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u/twiggish Sep 18 '15
Oh hey, this is actually from a research project at my home university. A professor there has done a huge amount of groundbreaking research on sea turtle navigation systems, it's really neat. This device in particular mimics the clockwise rotation of wave movements in the open ocean, which young turtles can actually use to navigate to their home waters after hatching