Computer Made from DNA Enzymes

[Zero]

taken from http://science.box.sk/

"Israeli scientists have devised a computer that can perform 330 trillion operations per second, more than 100,000 times the speed of the fastest PC. The secret: It runs on DNA."

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0224_030224_DNAcomputer.html

So this is my serious question:

HOW to debug this ?

[disavowed]

kinda gives a new meaning to "computer viruses"

[JMI]

Well first you probably need to download the human genome project into your computer and begin "mapping" your "source code". But, hey, it dosent' make much sense that they could wirte "code" for such a computer without also inventing some method to debug it.

Regards.

[naides]

Ahhh, that way journalists have to spin news about hopes and hypotheses as facts.

The only computers that indeed work with DNA and Enzymes are called living cells. We are getting the raw code right now, and have very rudimentary ideas about their assembly language and the operating system API's and house keeping chores.

It will be a few decades until we learn how to debug.

[Woodmann]

Howdy,

I beleive that you will need something to get
you to ring -3.

If you cant hook the process at the lowest level......
I mean, you could try to hook it later but then
there would be way to much code to look at.

Someone needs to write a cerebral unpacker first.
I dont think this will be as easy as Aspr

Maybe Splaj has an answer

Woodmann

[Zero]

I have another horrible idea:

Imagine you code your app with DNA.

We all know that one fact of DNA is "spontanous mutation"

Now go, code your module Number 10 and suddenly the code modules 9 and 5 mutate to a better or ugly code....

But DNA does "evolving" (mutation), so if you code a bad app.... just wait and you get a cool program

[Woodmann]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAAA

I bet you could make a ton of money selling
that stuff. No more need to know what your doing

Woodmann

[disavowed]

Are you implying that application programmers know what they're doing now?

[Woodmann]

I would never say such a thing.

Woodmann

[sirius]

I think that cloning some good tools in this new system will be a good idea, just imagine that Ilfak has developed his genius tool for this system, cloning it and ameliorating it will give another powerful tool, and it my do many extra task that the old version couldn't