{"id":22888,"date":"2016-02-29T00:16:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T08:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/scientists-successfully-test-biological-supercomputer-performing-complex-tasks"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:47:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:47:30","slug":"scientists-successfully-test-biological-supercomputer-performing-complex-tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/scientists-successfully-test-biological-supercomputer-performing-complex-tasks","title":{"rendered":"Scientists successfully test \u2018biological supercomputer\u2019 performing complex tasks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-successfully-test-biological-supercomputer-performing-complex-tasks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have taken on the problem of reducing a super computer the size of a basketball field to that of a book. The answer is \u201cbiocomputers\u201d \u2013 incredibly powerful machines capable of performing multiple calculations with a fraction of energy.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunduniversity.lu.se\/article\/using-nanotechnology-to-create-parallel-computers\">study<\/a> coordinator Heiner Linke, who heads nanoscience at Lund University in Sweden, \u201c<em>a biocomputer requires less than one percent of the energy an electronic transistor needs to carry out one calculation step.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A biocomputer is useful because ordinary computers are incapable of solving combinational problems, such as those dealing with cryptography or other tasks requiring that a multitude of possible solutions be considered before deciding on the optimal one. These already exist, but the new research from Lund tackles the key problems of scalability and energy efficiency.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/333912-biocomputers-perform-complex-calculations\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/333912-biocomputers-perform-complex-calculations\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have taken on the problem of reducing a super computer the size of a basketball field to that of a book. The answer is \u201cbiocomputers\u201d \u2013 incredibly powerful machines capable of performing multiple calculations with a fraction of energy. According to study coordinator Heiner Linke, who heads nanoscience at Lund University in Sweden, \u201ca [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62616,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22888\/revisions\/62616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}