The article is going on about how it's unimaginable to be running Windows in that environment, but I recall a few instances of military vessels running Windows in previous years/decades. Some report of US submarine(s) being dead in the water whenever NT crashes, a cruiser losing propulsion due to Windows crash, etc. I think running Windows on subs is not that uncommon.
This is disappointing. We have a webapp and (small) GPU datacenter that can extract tens of billions of polygons per day from remote sensing imagery (gis.incogna.com). I felt quite happy to see SimpleGeo working on a decentralized approach to the storage component.
It's fascinating to read another company having evaluated NoSQL and come to an identical conclusion as we did internally.
I love the idea of NoSQL, but Cassandra was horrible (just look their source code or Thrift) and Mongo lost data. I guess 40 years of relational databases isn't so easy to replace.
I compared/contrasted TinEye against Google CBIR for a bunch of images (I use TinEye a lot) and I have to say TinEye looks better than Google CBIR so far. TinEye has less "zero results" and more search results overall, I get the feeling TinEye deals with "Photoshopped images" better somehow.