Talk:Physics processing unit

Does anyone else think this comes off as an advertisment? Someone with more knowledge on the subject should probably provide a counter point...

I removed the advertisement and cleaned it up a bit (it was a PPU and a CPU in the previous version :P).

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Calling the link a closer look takes the expression to new depths. Quotiong:

We really don’t know a great deal about the intimate details of the architecture,
but a light weight parallel floating point with lots of communications is a good
start. We’ve had several guesses at how the hardware works that have been confirmed
wrong. But to paraphrase Edison, eliminating all incorrect paths leads to the goal.

The only thing you get is a cookie storm and tons of advertising. I suggest we drop that link.

What the heck makes a core a "physics processing unit" different from an ordinary SIMD vector anyway? Is there some kind of special opcode for "calculate Laplacian" or "solve critically damped spring" or something? Collabi 10:17, 11 August 2005 (UTC)Reply