AUGUSTA Planetary Supercomputer, Shell by Lightspeeed

Lightspeeed

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14th Dec 2016

14th Dec 2016

The AUGUSTA mainframe was built over many, many iterations, hundreds of thousands of worlds cannibalized for the components to create it. This is one of the prior states of construction.

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  Gowate 11th Sep 2021
  The ISS itself costed about 250 billions of dollars
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  Furry_02 11th May 2021
  Self_Destruct: Billions? You mean quadrillions? Beacause this is a entire planet sized computer.
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  Self_Destruct 15th Dec 2016
  @Lightspeed But the problems would be a) that would be quite costly (I'm assuming that even one of these machines costs on the scale of billions of dollars), b) where would you find/build all of those machines, c) how would you find that many entangled particles, and d) how would you not break the entanglement (because an entanglement breaks the moment you interfere with it).
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  Lightspeeed 14th Dec 2016
  Quantum Entanglement according to recent research has actually successfully transferred classical information with zero latency whatsoever due to the nature of entangled particles through a machine that I don't quite understand myself. Data capable of being transferred across the universe without any timelapse between sending and receiving would more than make a planet-sized computer a possibility. The real problem with AUGUSTA is that it's in a miserable state of disrepair. :P
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  Self_Destruct 14th Dec 2016
  (Continued from previous comment) Unless, of course, this is a network of many millions of computers, but still, the size would definitely be a factor. I suppose the creators of this supercomputer could just build it as a satellite of a sun, build it to any size they want (where even a million Raspberry Pi's would only take up 39 cubic meters), and just call it good there. :P
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  Self_Destruct 14th Dec 2016
  (Continued from previous comment) So the time it would take for a signal to pass all the way around the planet, assuming a perfectly circular path around the equator, would be about 0.133 seconds. If that were the clock speed, then that computer would have about 7.5 Hz, or 7.5 operations per second, whereas many modern computers have 1.5-2.5 GHz. That's off by a factor of ~200-300 million.
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  Self_Destruct 14th Dec 2016
  I feel like if you have a computer the size of a planet, the speed of electrons start to become a concern. Assuming that this is an earth-like planet in size, then it must be 40,000 km in circumference. Now, the speed of electrons along a perfect wire would be very close to the speed of light, at around 99% C, or about 300,000 km/sec.