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Havok, AMD demo OpenCL-based physics at GDC
by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:54 AM on March 26, 2009
Just as expected, AMD and Havok teamed up to show GPU-accelerated gaming physics at the Game Developers Conference this week. The two firms have posted a press release to that effect, saying their demonstrations included "the first OpenCL supported execution of Havok Cloth™."
What's Havok Cloth? Pretty much what you'd expect: a runtime and toolset that lets developers add physically simulated cloth to their games. The official videos on this page show the technology applied to a dress, close-fitting pants and a shirt, a ponytail, a cape, and a variety of other cloth-like materials.
Of course, since Havok is using OpenCL, it doesn't seem to be strictly targeting AMD graphics processors. The announcement states plainly, "Havok will enable game developers to offer improved performance and interactivity across a broad range of OpenCL capable PCs." In case you missed the memo, both AMD and Nvidia plan to offer early OpenCL driver support in the first half of this year. That means Havok could also run on GeForce GPUs and compete head-to-head with Nvidia's PhysX.
by Cyril Kowaliski — 9:54 AM on March 26, 2009
Just as expected, AMD and Havok teamed up to show GPU-accelerated gaming physics at the Game Developers Conference this week. The two firms have posted a press release to that effect, saying their demonstrations included "the first OpenCL supported execution of Havok Cloth™."
What's Havok Cloth? Pretty much what you'd expect: a runtime and toolset that lets developers add physically simulated cloth to their games. The official videos on this page show the technology applied to a dress, close-fitting pants and a shirt, a ponytail, a cape, and a variety of other cloth-like materials.
Of course, since Havok is using OpenCL, it doesn't seem to be strictly targeting AMD graphics processors. The announcement states plainly, "Havok will enable game developers to offer improved performance and interactivity across a broad range of OpenCL capable PCs." In case you missed the memo, both AMD and Nvidia plan to offer early OpenCL driver support in the first half of this year. That means Havok could also run on GeForce GPUs and compete head-to-head with Nvidia's PhysX.
AMD ร่วมมือกับ Havok โชว์ความสามารถ Physic จาก GPU ในงาน Game Developer Conference โดยแสดงการทำงานของเอนจิ้น Havok Cloth™ บน OpenCL
Havok Cloth คือเครื่องมือออกแบบและแสดงผลเสื้อผ้า จำลองฟิสิกส์ของผ้าพริ้วๆ และ Material ของผ้าด้วย (ดูตัวอย่าง)
ทั้งนี้ เอนจิ้น Havok ใช้ OpenCL ในการทำงาน นั่นก็คือ ไม่ใช่มีแค่ GPU ของ AMD ที่จะรันได้คนเดียว แต่ Geforce ของ Nvidia ก็จะสามารถรันเอนจิ้น Havok ตัวใหม่นี้ได้เช่นกัน
* ในข่าวไม่ได้บอกว่า รุ่นใหนของ AMD บ้าง ที่จะสนับสนุน OpenCL แต่ผมเดาว่า HD3XXX ขึ้นไป น่าจะได้ใช้ครับ
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