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Simulating an aborted landing and "go around" at 17, 000 feet, I found no lag at all.
Morgan has been simulating trades in interest rate derivatives on 250 PCs in its London offices.
Simulating the progress of a fire for one minute typically takes an hour of computing time.
The match prediction tool is something that Nate built and simulating results is a relatively simple process.
After simulating the 2012 MLB All-Star Game on PlayStation 3, the win will go to the NLAll-Stars.
The hose is connected to a machine that lowers the air's oxygen content, thereby simulating a mountaintop environment.
Unlike the popular human time-sink, this was all in the name of science: specifically, simulating the human brain.
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Simulating a major fire on an oil rig for training purposes is not an easy thing to do.
The 10-inches of real estate don't seem to hamper Stantum's multitouch, ultra-sensitive and pressure-simulating resistive touchscreen technology one bit.
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They released tiny droplets containing Staphyloccus aureus, a bacteria related to MRSA, from a heated mannequin simulating the human body.
Members of both Oracle and Artemis teams said in interviews before Thursday's accident that they practiced for catastrophes by simulating capsizes.
And who has time for a weekly exercise simulating launching a new product launch or selling to a particular vertical market?
For RRM, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center designed a module simulating a satellite, as well as custom power tools for Dextre.
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Bhatia believes that her longer-life microlivers will do a better job of simulating the experiences patients have when they take drugs.
ILM's first breakthrough: a motion control camera, which could revolve repeatedly around stationary objects while remaining in constant focus, thus simulating flight.
As in the previous two events, the Navy shot down an Aries rocket simulating a Scud class short to medium range missile.
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So about 10 years ago, Ms. Kylen came up with a game that has clients simulating their financial plan before implementing it.
But if you're looking for exotic game gear for simulating everything from trains to planes to automobiles, you're living in a golden age.
Some tools, like Colorblind Vision, help businesses and marketers see what their materials look like to colorblind people by simulating various color-vision deficiencies.
Today researchers are building force feedback surgical instruments for use in simulating--and eventually performing--minimally invasive surgical procedures like angioplasty or laparoscopic gall bladder removals.
Just simulating the abilities of a 40-qubit quantum computer would use all the resources of any of the most advanced supercomputers in the world.
The science, as you can imagine, is a little dense, but involves the requirement of a discrete 3D lattice when simulating the fundamental laws of physics.
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This is force feedback, or the art of simulating physical forces in devices ranging from mice and joysticks to surgical instruments and even knobs on stereo receivers.
Dr James Marshall, a computer scientist at the University of Sheffield co-ordinating the project, said simulating a brain was one of the "major challenges" of artificial intelligence.
Banks, which routinely play computerised war games simulating the risks in their trading strategies, are being asked to be harder-nosed about assessing which hedge funds they deal with.
Along with a team of 15 students - from engineers, programmers and electronic experts - they have spent the past four months designing, prototyping, simulating, and debugging Stompy.
But simulating the experience of individual soldiers is something new.
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Fire forecasters do the same, but as well as simulating the goings-on in the atmosphere, they also add a second numerical model to simulate the fire on the ground.
Once it is clear that one column has been simulated, the project will move on to simulating several such columns, again verifying its results by experiments with real brain tissues.
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