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RE: DNA Computing Could Blow Quantum Computing Away
So in the end the size doesn't matter? They made an allusion to your desktop computer on this principle being quicker than a supercomputer, but I guess that was only the idea of exponential time to arrive at a a solution making that tech faster than anythin, and not actually the DNA tech itself.
Today's tech can do parallel processing, so what is the drive for a "quantum" solution that would do exponentially fast solution calculations? Wouldn't it still be faster in its design compared to the current tech?
DNA is a data-storage system that is 1000x denser than any RAM that we have today. DNA is not a computation system.
Massive parallelism, like described in the article, is based upon the ability to rapidly and accurately clone DNA. Every time a branch is discovered, then entire state is "cloned" and farmed off to another processing core.
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/134672-harvard-cracks-dna-storage-crams-700-terabytes-of-data-into-a-single-gram
Parallel processing in this manner allows computation to be spread out to more cores: if you can transport the cloned DNA to an available processor efficiently.
Before DNA computers can become a reality, we will need the technology to completely sequence the human genome in a microsecond.
Ah ok, good for storage potential for now, but not processing for a while... if at all. Thanks for the explanation!
That is interesting. I had never heard of this worded this way.
Your explanation is good.