The War Of The Virtual Worlds

man_ls writes "The University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute is working with the U.S. Joint Forces Command to harness supercomputer power, to simulate a virtual continent for use in urban battlefield situations. The simulation, set in the year 2015, involves 100,000 entities to simulate, although the system can support more than a million."

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Power of Supercomputing

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This article is the perfect reason why we are better off with the West having a lock on supercomputing. Having the best supercomputers means that we can have the best ability to defend ourselves from external hostilities: Islam, China, etc.

There is no equivalence between China and the West. The West should have the best computers and the best weapons. Western values (e.g. democracy, human rights, compassion, equality of women, etc.) are the finest human values in the world, and we have a vested interest in ensuring their survival -- and dominance. The hordes of immigrants fleeing to the USA (and the rest of the West) is a big clue.

On a side note, what percentage of the 100,000 entities in the battlefield simulation will be robots? The Department of Defense has been trying to increase the number of robotic/autonomous fighting vehicles in order to minimize the loss of human life on the battlefield.

Further, we must eventually ratchet up the number of entities to more than 10 million. The Chinese (including those in Taiwan province and Hong Kong) have a well known disregard for human life (e.g. the rape and murder of Tibetans). The Chinese would readily sacrifice 10,000,000 civilians (not merely soldiers) by using them as human blockades against American mechanized armor.