IBM taps local researchers to turn PlayStation 3 chip to science
By Greg Kline
Sunday February 4, 2007
Robert K. O'Daniell
From left, University of Illinois researchers Marc Snir, Laxmikant Kale and David Kunzman with two styles of the desktop-class computers in a supercomputer cluster in the Siebel Center on the UI campus in Urbana.
Those fast cars barreling around the track or the kung-fu fighters duking it out on the screen, all rendered in cinema-like quality, just look like a game.
What you're really witnessing is a sophisticated physics simulation – that is to say, simulation of the physical world.
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