Scientists have been using special molecules, a system developed by parallel calculations more processing power than conventional systems. The system is copied from how the brain works.
According to the scientists, their approach to a molecular computer, an attempt to the way the brain works to simulate. So can brain cells a lot of connections among themselves, which is a large parallel computing power brings with it. According to scientists contains the brain about a million times a billion connections between brain cells, the so-called white substance.
The molecular computer operates with annular ddq molecules, which are four different shapes, depending on where negatively charged electrons in the molecule. That reports Technology Review. With small electric shocks, it is possible for the molecules between forms to switch between them. Individual ddq molecules can connect to each other, up to a maximum of six connections.
When scientists with a stroomschokje a configuration change in one ddq molecule to achieve, this works in all other molecules which that connection is made. Thereby an electrical circuit being simulated, wherein the electromagnetic ‘starting point’ of the molecular network is determined by the shocks that are given.
A network of ddq molecules can be used to make calculations in parallel. Scientists have 300 of these molecules on a gold substrate, placed, and then the system modified in such a way that the warmtediffusie in a conductive medium was calculated. The system can also calculate how cancer spreads through tissue.
The invention must lead to computers in the future may have much more computing power than with hitherto known methods would have been the case.
