Ask HN: What could we human do with more computing power?

4 points by ugdev 12 years ago | 5 comments

Hi,

yesterday i discussed with a friend of mine what would change with quantum computers.

Would we overcome milestones in medical & biotech science? Would we explore more of our universe? I'm already very excited about this topic. What will change with exponential increased computer power?

Right now as quantum computers are not normalcy - what impact does current crowd computing have on science? There are a few project we you can let your computer compare proteins etc. - is it worth it my time, cpu power and electricity costs? How important is crowd computing?

Excited to hear your thoughts on that.

Best ugd

sumitviii 12 years ago |

This is probably a silly idea, but I read that 2013 chemistry Nobel prize was given to guys to simulated complex chemical system. I am probably extrapolating this WAY too much, but I think if we have more computational power we can simulate cells. Protein structures are still not understood well.

ugdev 12 years ago | |

Hm. Sounds all not very exciting right now. We have to understand more to build algorithms that take away some work we'd 've to do manually

J_Darnley 12 years ago |

Waste it on more slower code.

ugdev 12 years ago | |

What do you mean?

J_Darnley 12 years ago | | |

Better computers mean developers waste more memory and more cpu cycles doing pointless things. More animation, more eye candy.