[Beowulf] coprocessor to do "physics calculations"

[Frank Scott]

On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 06:24:39PM -0700, Bill Broadley wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 01:09:07PM -0700, Jim Lux wrote:
> > Ran across an interesting device:
> > http://physx.ageia.com/
> > 
> > It's some sort of coprocessor (marketed to the gaming community) that looks 
> > like its designed to efficiently numerically integrate equations of 
> > motion.  Clever idea.  Not much substantive info in the whitepaper.
> > http://physx.ageia.com/whitepaper_avanced_gaming_physics.pdf
> 
> Anyone know if it can handle double precision floating point?
> 
It doesn't look like it does

 <http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/05/04/review_ageia_physx_board/>

Frank

-- 
    .^.     .''`. 
    /V\    : ;`  :   Frank Scott  Sutton, London
  /(   )\  `. ''`
   ^^ ^^     `-