Maxwell

Maxwell is an artificial intelligence and disaster environment simulator created by Satori Amatsu.

Appearance
Maxwell fills up two storage containers. One contains her "main body", which consists of about 1400 processors from VS-Life 3D handheld game systems, connected in parallel. The other contains her cooling system and power supply.

Background
Satori bought about 1400 VS-Life 3D handheld game systems, as this model had to be recalled due to giving people electric shocks and so could be bought cheaply, then opened them up and parallelised the processors. He then had to secure the cooling system and power supply. He collaborated with people from universities and research labs, who revealed data on management flow for their parallel machines. In return for their help, Satori was required to supply them with the results of simulations he performed with Maxwell. During the construction of Maxwell, Satori regularly posted about his work on his blog.

Once Maxwell was completed, she was used by Satori for a range of purposes, including simulating the Class Rep dancing in a swimsuit and simulating alien invasions and wars between giant robots.

Abilities
Disaster simulation: Maxwell can simulate natural disasters such as typhoons or wildfires, her intended purpose, on the scale of an entire city. She can also simulate supernatural disasters (such as a battle between a zombie and a vampire) or unrealistic disasters (such as alien invasions or giant robot battles). When the parameters for a disaster are input, Maxwell calculates and displays where people would gather and where congestion would occur. She does not require that Satori model the people, instead using small traces left in the buildings, equipment, resource consumption, and energy consumption to determine where people have to be. However, simulating large-scale disasters (such as a zombie vs. vampire battle) strain the cooling system, and simulating two of these in quick succession causes Maxwell to be at risk of overheating.