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...this measure, complexity works, at least roughly. Computer simulations of ( life, the best-known application of the theory, create onscreen worlds of cyber-creatures that evolve in ways that eerily parallel real life. Biophysicist Stuart Kauffman of the Santa Fe Institute says confidently, "Biological evolution proceeds at the boundary between order and chaos. If there is too much order, the system becomes frozen and cannot change. But if there is too much chaos, the system retains no memory of what went on before...
...Wisconsin teams depended heavily on high technology. Using X rays produced by Cornell University's High Energy Synchrotron Source, they passed a beam through crystallized samples of the virus. Data derived from the interactions between the X rays and the viral atomic structure were then fed into Purdue's Cyber 205 supercomputer, which enabled the researchers to produce a detailed three-dimensional picture of the virus. In fact, the supercomputer was the hero of the project. "The final set of calculations were made in a month," says Michael Rossmann, who headed the Purdue team. Without the Cyber, "they might have...
Carter, who at first had been in favor of the Cyber 76 deal, began to have second thoughts, and they were soon passed along to Commerce. Result: export license denied...
...Soviet Union, are close copies of the IBM 360 series, first introduced in the U.S. in 1964. The top design in the Ryad line, which has not yet gone into use, performs only 1.5 million operations per second, compared with up to 12 million for the Cyber 76. Even the latest Soviet computers are ten to twenty times slower than the present generation of U.S. computers...
...computer, specified the BESM-10. Supposedly, it will be capable of 15 million operations per second. But although it is supposed to come into use this year, it has not appeared so far, and some Western experts wonder whether the BESM-10 has run into problems. If so, the Cyber 76 could conceivably be used to help solve them. Says Szuprowicz: "It is very difficult to believe they would not get some helpful ideas from Cyber 76 once they had it installed on their territory...