A video game to find oil and gas... sounds like a potential best-seller!

Published: September 21, 2007, 8:30 pm

Filed under: Emerging Technologies, Etc.Video games have been a popular topic this week on AutoblogGreen. Just a few days ago, we shared news about racing a Tesla Roadster against a Ferrari in the upcoming game Project Gotham Racing 4. While that sounds way cooler than digging around looking for oil, the same computers could be used for developing both, according to this story from the University of Houston (UH). The computer in question is a supercomputer from IBM which uses processor technology called the Cell Broadband Engine[TM] which was designed and created by IBM, Toshiba and Sony for the PlayStation 3. I don't know if you keep up with this sort of thing or not, but the newest PlayStation uses a type of processor known as the Cell Synergistic Processor Unit. Sony has announced that this processor architecture would be made available to other industries for totally unrelated use, and this sounds exactly like what they were talking about. The article from UH goes on to say that a

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