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Simulated Universe
anonymous lion writes "A story in the Guardian Unlimited reports on The Millennium Simulation saying that it is 'the biggest exercise of its kind'. It required 25 million megabytes of memory to take our universe's initial conditions along with the known laws of physics to create this simulated universe." From the article: "The simulated universe represents a cube of creation with sides that measure 2bn light years. It is home to 20m galaxies, large and small. It has been designed to answer questions about the past, but it offers the tantalising opportunity to fast-forward in time to the slow death of the galaxies, billions of years from now."
"25 million megabytes of memory"
man, just when i thought 2 gigs was a lot...
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Whoa this is slashdot - news for nerds, convert to metric please, :P
or least use Giga or Tera
Just type "FUND" a few hundred times.
Do it before you build anything, because it causes earthquakes.
there's more than one way to do me.
isn't how much memory longhorn need to run?
Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity. -Nikola Telsa
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PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
561 ganesh 13 0 58876 25000000M 1044 S 0 0.7 95.1 68:51 universe
I think they deserver a good smiting.
So when will Google Maps be available for this universe?
What if we're in a simulated universe, simulating other universes?
Whoaaa.
Pass the bong, dude.
Now we're going to /. the cosmos.
Faith: n. -- That human impulse that drives them to steal appliances when the power goes out
Ho Hum ..... If you REALLY want to impress
people, then design a simulation of how
corporate management ( and IT in particular)
thinks and behaves.
Denial is not a river in Egypt
No, i'm sure this machine doesn't extrapolate the universe based off of a piece of fairy cake.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
I, for one, welcome our new Simulated Overlords.
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...with this pocket calculator stuff.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
And if it does, the simulator in the simulated universe simulates other universe?
And if it does, does it include the simulator?
And this simulator...
The simulated universe represents a cube of creation
It represents 4 simultaneous cubes of creation. Dumbass!
At least this was going around when I was at Berkeley:
NEW OPERATING SYSTEM:
Because so many users have asked for an operating system of even greater capability than VM, IBM announces the Virtual Universe Operating System --- OS/VU.
Running under VU the individual user appears to have not merely a machine of his own, but an entire universe of his own, in which he can set up and take down his own programs, data sets, system networks, personnel and planetary systems. He need only specify the universe he desires, and the OS/VU system generation program (IEHGOD) does the rest. This program resides in SYS1.GODLIB. The minimum time for this function is 6 days of activity and 1 day of review. In conjunction with OS/VU, all system utilities reside in SYS1.MESSIAH. This program has no parms or control cards, as it knows what you want to do when you execute it.
Naturally, the user must have attained a certain degree of sophistication in the data processing field if an efficient utilization of OS/VU is to be achieved. Frequent calls to non-resident galaxies can, for instance, lead to unexpected delays in the execution of a job. Although IBM, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, the United States, is working on a program to upgrade the speed of light and thus reduce the overhead of extraterrestrial and metadimensional paging, users must be careful for the present to stay within the laws of physics. IBM must charge an additional fee for violations.
OS/VU will run on any IBM x0xx equipped with the Extended WARP Feature. Rental is 20 million dollars per cpu/nanosecond.
Users should be aware that IBM plans to migrate all existing systems and hardware to OS/VU as soon as our engineers effect one output that is (conceptually) error free. This will give us a base to develop an even more powerful OS, target date 2001, designated as 'Virtual Reality'. OS/VR is planned to allow the user to migrate to totally unreal universes. To aid the user in identifying the difference between 'Virtual Reality' and 'Real Reality', a file containing a linear record of multisensory total records of successive moments of now will be established. It's name will be SYS1.EST.
Don't worry, typing "FUND" does not cause earthquakes. In fact if you do it early enough there is no earth to quake. However does cause 'big bangs', which can be devastating to an established universe.
Sheesh!
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