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Alexander Sasha Wait <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
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Package: The Quantum Coreworld
System name: qcw
Type: non-GNU

Description:
The Quantum Coreworld combines elements from the game Corewar and modern 
artificial life projects such as Avida, Tierra and Swarm. Its name is inspired 
by, the Coreworld, the first artificial life simulator based on Corewar. Unlike 
these other projects, programs in the Quantum Coreworld can use Quantum 
instructions. This was done by integrating libquantum with the standard pMars. 
Quantum strangeness is particularly obvious when unexpected correlations show 
up in spatially separated quantum systems. To give programs a better chance of 
exhibiting this strangeness, in the Quantum Coreworld, the world consists of 
one or more films of isolated compartments. If there is more than one film then 
these films interact through periodic, random exchanges. This structure also 
has a biological motivation since biofilms in a water-column or in 
water-treatment applications can be organized this way. A film of compartments, 
in the Quantum Coreworld, is actually a number of
individual cores that are arranged in a locally interacting grid. All 
programs—in all compartments on all films—execute in parallel. The exact timing 
is stochastic but on average each program has the opportunity to execute an 
equal number of cycles.

Please see: http://genetics.med.harvard.edu/~await/qcw/#simulators


Other Software Required:
This software does not depend on any non-free components.  It was designed and 
tested on Debian Linux.  (It should probably  worn on most X11 operating 
systems.)  An SDL version of pQmars is planned.  This will allow users of 
non-free operating systems to use the software but the primary platform will 
always be completely free. 

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