User:RelentlessRecusant/Blue Chip

Blue Chip, colloquially known as "The Program", is a highly sophisticated supercomputer operated by the UNSC Joint Chiefs of Staff. Capable of operating at a maximum performance of 500-700 billion yettaflops (5-7 1035 floating point operations per second), it is the most powerful human or Covenant supercomputer ever constructed, vastly exceeding all prior supercomputer models.

Blue Chip is a vector processor capable of multiform process and is capable of "semi-infinite computing power", that is, it uses gross raw computing power (twenty-three orders of magnitude faster than the IBM Roadrunner, the fastest human computer as of 2009) to execute brute-force attack of "Grand Challenge Problems", extraordinarily massive and stochastic systems to which a solution requires nearly-infinite competition. Blue Chip's gargantuan and ponderous speed allows for the derivation of extraordinarily complex systems, such as predictive weather forecasting, simulation of the human mind, and simulation of overall UNSC military security, independently automatedly checking civilian newsfeeds and military sources to tally information on civilian discontent, arms trafficking, security of weapons of mass destruction, deployment of UNSC forces, projecting possible hostile force locations, etc... to deliver a massive but extraordinarily comprehensive and detailed daily report on UNSC security. Each security report issued by Blue Chip every day is classified as Top Secret PATRIOT because of the extraordinarily sensitive information contained within each report.

It is postulated through the Church–Turing thesis that through recursive logic, Blue Chip will be capable to solve almost any complex, highly-dimensional problem by brute force attack. Recently, Blue Chip was able to exactingly calculate the weather of every single town and city on Earth for the next five years, given the current weather for a single day. Blue Chip has been used to solve highly complex astrophysics problems, including calculation of nearly-exact quantum events during the Big Bang as well as precisely calculating the size of the Universe. Recently, the UNSC Office of Naval Intelligence demonstrated that Blue Chip, through an undisclosed algorithm, can break a 10,000-bit cipher in several months; the fastest cryptography supercomputers of the 21st century would require 102,987 years (three google years) to break such a cipher. This revelation led to the establishment that not a single code currently in use by the 26th century UNSC or Covenant can't be broken by Blue Chip. Later, the UNSC was sued for the production of a computer that can read every single electronic transmission in the galaxy, although this was later repealed.

Blue Chip's uses are highly classified under Top Secret PATRIOT. It is strongly believed that one of Blue Chip's secondary functions is cryptography; the decryption of intercepted military, political, and civilian transmissions; Blue Chip's exaggerated force allows it to attack even the most complex current modern-day ciphers and solve it within nanoseconds through heuristic decompressive methods and combinatorial brute force attack.