Nvidia Physics Engine Almost Complete

Nvidia has stated that their translation of Ageia's physics engine to CUDA is almost complete. To showcase the capabilities of the new tech Nvidia ran a particle demonstration similar to Intel's Nehalem demo, at ten times the speed. "While Intel's Nehalem demo had 50,000-60,000 particles and ran at 15-20 fps (without a GPU), the particle demo on a GeForce 9800 card resulted in 300 fps. In the very likely event that Nvidia's next-gen parts (G100: GT100/200) will double their shader units, this number could top 600 fps, meaning that Nehalem at 2.53 GHz is lagging 20-40x behind 2006/2007/2008 high-end GPU hardware. However, you can't ignore the fact that Nehalem in fact can run physics."

Comments

Re:I couldn't find anything specific - will nVidia

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, if there were official drives, that would certainty make porting games easier...

Re:I couldn't find anything specific - will nVidia

[wanerious]

Don't get me wrong, I am a HUGE fan of linux, I use it on all my computers. However, there is no point in releasing drivers for this in Linux because the only use would be physics accelerated games, which won't be ported to Linux anyway.

The *only* use?? Geez, I'd like to get my hands on the API to write some physics educational/demonstration software. Or just create physically accurate simulations for kicks. We don't *have* to rely on others to write software for us.

640K RAM is enough for anybody, right?

[mmell]

Just because you don't currently have a use for this, doesn't mean nobody ever will.

That's okay - somebody else already posted the answer - this thing'll use an established mechanism (CUDA). I don't know what that is, but after this card hits the market, I'll probably start to find out.

Re:I couldn't find anything specific - will nVidia

[bendodge]

Linux games? I guarantee you that many packages tagged "science" will use this in no time and games will be left to rot.