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Originally Posted by dduff442
Secondly, I'd need to see a lot of evidence before I'd believe GPUs have some inherent advantage over CPUs for physics calculations;
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GPUs have advantages over CPUs for processing, full stop. The only advantage CPUs have is that they are optimised for x86 and x64 code, so you need them to run Windows (or Linux, or Apple's OSX).
People used to use multiple CPUs to make fast computers, now they use multiple GPUs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPGPU
CUDA is the nVidia name for it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA
The AMD name for it is Stream:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Fir...evelopment_Kit