Re: Simulating an assembler?


On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:05:26 -0000
John Devereux <jdREMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> John.S.Novak@xxxxxxxxx, III <jsn@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > So, since this is considered to be significant (nanodot.org is claiming
> > it to be a first) I wager to say that the very much larger simulations
> > of full assemblers are not yet feasible. 65 ps of simulation took
> > almost 8 hours on a midrange laptop; even under the dubious assumption
> > that simulations of this type are linear in the number of atoms, a full
> > assembler would take about a thousand times as long to simulate.
>
> While not at all disagreeing with your post, I would like to point out
> that supercomputers are (at least) about a thousand times faster than
> a midrange laptop...

So 1 minute of assembler operation might be simulated by a
supercomputer in something like 4 * 10^11 hours - I think we should
have real assemblers by then (or given up trying).

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