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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. Middle East by Indy+Media+Watch · · Score: -1, Redundant

    You'd need a Beowulf Cluster of these babies to try and simulate a solution to the Middle East...

    How does this work with terrorists who specifically hide amongst civilian populations? It seems no amount of computer power could deal with that. I note the American way (bombing from on high) is different to the Israeli approach (going door to door at far greater risk with lower collateral damage). It just seems the solutions it comes up with may not adapt that well to the real world.

    I'd hate them to go: "Whoops... The computer never predicted THAT"!

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    Indy Media Watch-Proctologist of the Internet

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

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

  4. 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

  5. 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/

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  6. WOPR: by antiphoton · · Score: 0, Redundant

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

  7. 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!

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

    Anyone else think of Wargames?

  9. cu8 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

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