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Government Linux Gaming Supercomputer

Posted by michael on from the dream-come-true dept.

pupkick writes "Wired news has a story about a government supercomputer running Linux that 'pits two opposing teams of soldiers against one another in a fight for control over a city under siege.'"

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  1. WHAT A WASTE!!! by ferrellcat · · Score: 1, Redundant

    In the end, it will just start playing TIC-TAC-TOE then finally give up!

  2. Repeat story by klubkid79 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is a repeat story Friday October 22, 02:52PM

  3. Goverment Computer Games Are Nothing New! by johnthorensen · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hell, I was dialing in over 300 baud modem to W.O.P.R. back in 1983 playing "Global Thermonucluear War."

    Come to think of it...I never did beat that game...

    -JT

  4. Do you want to play a game? by sparcnut · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Reminds me of some random movie I watched on TV a few years ago... a quick Google turns it up as Wargames (1983). Not exactly a good movie, but it's pretty relevant to this article.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/

    --
    perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10);'
  5. WOPR: by antiphoton · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Strange game...the only winning move is not to play."

  6. Dupe City by Gumph · · Score: 0, Redundant

    is there two simulations of this or is it a dupe??
    http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/2 0/2013233&tid=126&tid=137&tid=185&tid= 14/
    methinks it is a dupe!

    --
    'By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes'
  7. Would you like to play a game? by Asmor · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Anyone else think of Wargames?