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damn thats pretty cool,

Is this an exciting time to be alive or what, DNA computers what next, just think byt he time our gran children are this old well all be reminising about the computers were using now why there off using god knows what.

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Probably so.

Sounds cool. I am reading the article right now. Wonder if diseases or mutations could affect the hardware? What about atomic computers?

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DNA's key advantage is that it will make computers smaller than any computer that has come before them, while at the same time holding more data. One pound of DNA has the capacity to store more information than all the electronic computers ever built; and the computing power of a teardrop-sized DNA computer, using the DNA logic gates, will be more powerful than the world's most powerful supercomputer. More than 10 trillion DNA molecules can fit into an area no larger than 1 cubic centimeter (0.06 cubic inches). With this small amount of DNA, a computer would be able to hold 10 terabytes of data, and perform 10 trillion calculations at a time. By adding more DNA, more calculations could be performed.

Wow! :knocked: Imagine how cheap, yet how powerful these computers will be.

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How are we gonna Overclock this baby !?!?!

Wonder if diseases or mutations could affect the hardware

Nope, not unless your adding proteins. DNA itself isnt alive. Its just a "codec" of sorts.

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From howstuffworks.com

The first DNA computers are unlikely to feature word processing, e-mailing and solitaire programs. Instead, their powerful computing power will be used by national governments for cracking secret codes, or by airlines wanting to map more efficient routes. Studying DNA computers may also lead us to a better understanding of a more complex computer -- the human brain.

-DAMN! that meens that they will be private before they become public (thats the computer industry for ya :ermm: :o)

-sMk

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DNA Computers / Quantum Computers. The future looks promising, you can break that 128 bit encryption that would take our computers today millions of years but these future computers can break em in one day!

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Originally posted by Labtec

DNA Computers / Quantum Computers. The future looks promising, you can break that 128 bit encryption that would take our computers today millions of years but these future computers can break em in one day!

Quantum computers sound great :DDD

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Quantum computers are very complex yet could be far more efficient and a million times faster if we could only moniter its state in another dimension. But it still works well. It very primitive and most likely to be used for raw math. Btw. Quantum computers could break 128 in seconds if not immediately.

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Anyone heard about Blue Gene , the next big thingie of IBM ?

http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene/

... Called Blue Gene/L, the machine will be at least 15 times faster, 15 times more power efficient and consume about 50 times less space per computation than today's fastest supercomputers ...
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Originally posted by Labtec

DNA Computers / Quantum Computers. The future looks promising, you can break that 128 bit encryption that would take our computers today millions of years but these future computers can break em in one day!

And thats why we'll never see them, at least for a long long time, until the governement has way better ways of encrypting stuff. The governement will never let computers that are that fast to be let onto the market. It would mean exactly what you said and result in a lot of bad stuff.

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encryption wouldn't really be a problem. if 128-bit-encryptions are too easy to crack, we will just encrypt through, say, 128-megabit-encryption algorithms. sounds ridiculous, but it's technically absolutely possible.

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Anyone think MS could come up with an operating system for these new DNA-PC's?

Microsoft Windows XP DNA Edition..... just doesn't sound right, does it <:)

How would DNA recover from a crash? <:)

LOL

Control - Alt - Fumigate

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the fact that all DNA has a givin error rate to allow for evolution would not be good for running programs

this is all a way off

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Originally posted by Goalie_CA

You guys are idiots. It won't evolve since it is not a cell and does not reproduce itself. You are all silly :s

Well my canadian friend, I don?t know what they teach you about DNA and evolution in canada but DNA controls everything (your cells) and errors in the DNA are what causes the changes that drive evolution. DNA is not only used for reproduction. Read a book before you call someone and idiot.

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How is the DNA supposed to evolve. Its not even alive. There no cell for it to change. Its simply a mega mollecule. How is the computer supposed to work if the DNA can't store or change anyways. An error would be as fatal as an error in rom. It would mess up instructions but that would be that.

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When the DNA polymerases reads the DNA coding for proteins or replication and has a known error rate. This is all done at amazing speeds and can store large amount of data. However, there is an small error rate. DNA does not need a ?cell? to have its code read. Again, read up before you call someone an idiot.

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I guess i misread your first post. I was trying to speed read through all the posts. I thought it said that the computers would evolve. My bad. I know that dna has a certain error rate built in and that is a major flaw.

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