Fw: Nvidia Physics Engine Almost Complete

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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. If 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."

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