A few of us have started working on something very exciting: Project Mammal. Basically it’ll be a simple game that incorporates multitouch input and mutliplayer. The idea is to have multiple players on one multitouch screen working together. It should be very fun once it gets off the ground.
The PS3 is quite something. It currently runs my simple Metropolis algorithm of the Ising model 22x faster than my Core2 6450 (not a beast of a machine but still). Although I have my suspicions that the more complicated (and memory hungry) Wang-Landau algorithm that I’m trying to implement will not be quite as successful. It requires more communication between the cores and that might cause some headaches. Unless one successfully splits the density of states up into sections and processes these independently, but then one must be sure to avoid systematic statistical errors