Bird, 55, who is project leader for the computing grid, says the detectors can put out more data than his computers can handle, enough to fill the biggest computer disk drive in a fraction of a second.
What this all means in practical terms is that Newcomb and Lu have managed to limit the time required to render thousands of 3D surfaces to only a fraction of those 16.666 milliseconds, giving them the room to fill in the balance with believable physics (and who knows what else, eventually.) And physics equations themselves are incredibly efficient descriptions of movement.