[ODE] hardware physics chip

[Vrej Melkonian]

In that case, I'd be interested to see it in action.
If it can boost performance by 50 times, then it's
worth it.
GPUs have proven themselves as an absolute requirement
and their job can be easily parallelized. It's
possible to increase their vertex and pixel pipes
indefinitly it seems.
What is the dominating performance factor in a physics
engine like ODE?


--- Jeffrey Smith <jeffreys at softimage.com> wrote:
> Vrej Melkonian [mailto:vmelkon at yahoo.com] wrote:
> > Is it possible to create a special chip for
> physics? It's not like 
> > graphics that can really benefit from a specially
> designed chip.
> 
> Yes it is possible, and yes physics can benefit from
> a specially designed
> chip.  It is possible to parallelize much of the
> physics computation
> required for medium-to-large scenes in addition to
> having specialized
> hardware for extremely fast 4x4 matrix computations
> 
> Limor Schweitzer <limor666 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone know if these guys base their stuff on
> ODE ?
> 
> They are using Novodex (www.novodex.com), which has
> been written by some
> ex-MathEngine employees (among others), and thus
> shares some architectural
> similarities with ODE.
> 
> It's an extremely robust physics engine, you should
> check out the demos.
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
> 
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