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Computer Made From DNA And Enzymes

Posted by timothy on from the it-is-what-you-are dept.

develop writes "Some folks from Israel have created a computer that runs on DNA and enzymes and is supposedly 100,000 times faster then today's PCs. Information at National Geographic, Telegraph UK and United Press." According to the National Geographic story, this DNA-based computer "can perform 330 trillion operations per second, more than 100,000 times the speed of the fastest PC." However, be aware that most of this is still future tense, and what these researchers have now is just a proof-of-concept.

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  1. Fastest Computer by Vidiot3k · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If I had one I'd have the FIRST POST!

  2. Slashdot is on an icon-drawing frenzy by Xpilot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    First the little transmitter, now a little double helix. Two new icons in one day. Wow. Will we get LOTR next?

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  3. Definition of "computer" by vlad_petric · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    In my not-so-humble opinion, a computer is something that's Turing-complete, i.e. it is computationally equivalent to a Turing machine (or von-Neumann automaton or lambda-calculus or ...).

    Until you can program such a system to solve any problem a normal computer can (modulo some size, as no real computer has infinite storage), you can't call it a computer.

    I do think it's a great achievement, but I don't like the "marketing paint".

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  4. Re:Ahem... by jpt.d · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    hey man, you are wrong, Mac OS X could run faster than windows does now!

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  5. Re:ha, nevermind by martyn+s · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Best. Troll. Ever.