Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 23:50:19 06/29/00
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On June 29, 2000 at 19:03:35, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi all: >Probably you have already read about the new supercomputer delivered by IBM to a >center where they investigate atomic devices blast. It is 1000 times faster than >deep Blue and so maybe you wonder, as me, what a thing like this could do if >running a program like that enclosed in DB. Bob? >Fernando Dear Fernando, I would hate to pay the electric bill for this 12,000,000,000,000 flop machine as it eats the amount of electricity that 1000 households consume. To put things in perspective, it only is capable of investigating the behavior of the igniting fuse that starts the nuclear explosion. To fully investigate the real-time behavior of a nuclear explosion would take at least a 100 tera-flop machine. What kind of computer would be needed to simulate the zero point of creation? That is the point before the big bang occurred and all the matter in the universe existed in a small area. 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,this is getting ridiculous,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,will this ever end,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 flops. Even more mind boggling would be the simulation of life. Just think of simulating real-time 100,000 chemical reactions in 100,000,000,000 cells and the trillions of feedback loops among them. Makes you realize how puny our brains and computers are. I took a year of evolutionary theory at my university and we never got into that level of complexity. The human genome project is a simple exercise in cataloging by comparison. Chess on the other hand is a simple problem. Tim Frohlick
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