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The War Of The Virtual Worlds

Posted by timothy on from the attn-chris-dibona dept.

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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  1. Re:Bush Mode by Coneasfast · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I switched it into G.W.Bush Mode, and ended up with a big charcoal sphere :-P

    impressive! when i tried in Bush mode, i didn't even get a sphere!

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  2. Re:Bush Mode by EvilAlien · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I fell off my Segway.

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