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"We have tailored commercially available software, but we're pushing the edges of realism and scale, " he told the BBC.

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Commercially available quantum chemistry software could calculate the frequency.

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All the commercially available Intel chips sold these days have multiple cores, but not all of the software applications are tuned to utilize those cores and not all of the cores are sized to optimize performance of certain applications.

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As for availability, well, it's pretty clear the hardware will have to come before the software -- a NUIA spokesperson told us she doesn't expect its kit will be commercially available until sensing devices like Tobii become integrated into Windows 8 PCs.

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