So far, all I've heard about Ageia's PhysX card is in regards to gaming. But, I'm wondering if the hardware could potentially be put to use in the scientific or professional fields?
Undoubtably, organizations with a lot of funding have their own solutions to handle physics. However, if someone wanted to do physics research/education in their home basement with relatively little money, could PhysX fit the bill?
Or perhaps the person wanted to do 3d animation? After all, we have professional video cards catering to people that do 3d work for a living so why not hardware physics cards?
Ideas? Criticisms?
Undoubtably, organizations with a lot of funding have their own solutions to handle physics. However, if someone wanted to do physics research/education in their home basement with relatively little money, could PhysX fit the bill?
Or perhaps the person wanted to do 3d animation? After all, we have professional video cards catering to people that do 3d work for a living so why not hardware physics cards?
Ideas? Criticisms?