[Beowulf] coprocessor to do "physics calculations"

[Todd]

On that note. - I wonder what the throughput would measure if one where able
to cluster a bunch of Xboxes running linux.  

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To: Jim Lux
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Subject: Re: [Beowulf] coprocessor to do "physics calculations"

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?

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