UC San Diego and IBM Launch Center for Next-Generation Digital Media to Power Tomorrows Virtual Worlds

SAN DIEGO, CA and ARMONK, NY–(Marketwire – March 17, 2009) – Researchers at the University of California, San Diego today announced plans for a new campus center dedicated to invent the next generation of virtual worlds, multiple player online games, and high fidelity digital cinema, using one of the worlds most sophisticated computer servers — the IBM System z mainframe.