I'm an information technology student, and at my university I have access to a QS21 Cell Blade system. Soon it will be upgraded to a dual QS22. I have already implemented a simple path tracer on it, but I`m looking for other interesting ideas to implement on this system besides (or instead of) the path tracer. I have collected some ideas (e.g. fluid simulation), but I would like to get new ideas and opinions on what would be worth implementing on this powerful system. Any ideas and opinions are welcome. Thanks

Another interesting area that needs huge resources is Monte Carlo methods applied to computer go (look for ("UCT" or "MCTS") and "computer-go").

Thank you for your replies!

I like raytracing, so parametric and volumetric 3D textures and voxel NURBS surfaces seem to be quite interesting.

I was thinking about applying MC methods to chess, but go seems to be a better idea.

Now I'll look into these topics.

P.S. Concerning the indistinguishably perfect virtual world: I'll wait with that until I get a quantum computer :)