[ODE] Havok and NVIDIA present Havok FX at GDC 2006

[steve1011]

He's talking about Ageia's PhysX processor. They are releasing their 
libraries to developers. The physics library will s/w emulate if the h/w 
processor isn't installed. Sony PS3 dev kit includes these libraries and 
supports the PhysX hardware. ASUS is the primary vendor of PCI PhysX 
add-on cards. I couldn't find the pricing info this morning but I 
remember seeing it would be something like $200. ASUS also intends to 
offer motherboards with the PhysX processor embedded.

I believe nVidia and ATI are responding to Ageia's h/w by showing how 
physics can be accelerated using GPU's.

Steve

Vrej Melkonian wrote:

>Hi Gussimulator,
>
>Please respond to the mailing list so that everyone
>can participate.
>
>I just don't see companies making commercial games
>using the GPU for that purpose. I think it costs too
>much performance and rendering is already power
>hungry.
>
>What's the specialized hw you are talking about?
>
>--- Gussimulator <gussimulator at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>
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>
>>we've made some vertex and frag shaders specially
>>for physics calculations 
>>within the GPU (just for fun) an year ago, this is
>>not crazy at all... 
>>theres also some specialized hardware for processing
>>physics, you might want 
>>to take a look at that as well. (you could calculate
>>fluids in realtime, 
>>etc).  but the idea of having a separate cpu for
>>just physics, has always 
>>been crazy... and until a big company takes
>>advantage of this, no one would 
>>ever go and buy one of this cards (and even less if
>>they are way too 
>>expensive).
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Vrej Melkonian" <vmelkon at yahoo.com>
>>To: <ode at q12.org>
>>Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 11:26 PM
>>Subject: [ODE] Havok and NVIDIA present Havok FX at
>>GDC 2006
>>
>>
>>    
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>>>There is this news at
>>>http://www.gpgpu.org
>>>
>>>about using the GPU for certain non-gameplay
>>>      
>>>
>>related
>>    
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>>>physics.
>>>
>>>Also, someone named Will from ATI has responded
>>>      
>>>
>>here
>>    
>>
>>>http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_physics/
>>>
>>>So, nVidia and ATI are (or might) be proposing
>>>      
>>>
>>that
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>>>games take advantage of the GPU for some physics.
>>>
>>>Crazy or not?
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