<div dir="ltr">GPU is not required for PhysX there is a cpu level it can operate at as well, and while GPu support is good, I would also be surprised if OpenSimulator could actually fully utilize a GPU before mono would barf anyway, mono can only handle so much threading and even offloading all of that processing to the GPU, all that data ultimately has to flow back through mono / C# / OpenSim HTTP server and I suspect there will be a huge bottleneck there that would not allow for much more performance than the CPU itself could handle anyway, there would likely be some improvement though, the question is does that warrant the inclusion of an expensive GPU in a server, its going to draw a lot more power, and will not make a lot of sense in a standard data center style setup with 1U rack servers, expanding rack size increases costs quite a lot, the question is does that increased cost benefit performance enough to justify it, the only way to really find out is to try, I wonder if InWorldz does any GPu offloading for their implementation of PhysX, i suspect they do not but would be great to know for sure.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 5:15 PM, David Saunders <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abitar.com@gmail.com" target="_blank">abitar.com@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I know there be allot of grid interested in trying out the new physics when offer. <div><br></div><div>THe only big drawback of people adopting the PhysX is that relies on a GPU to do its processing and not sure if you run more then one engine on a machine.</div><div><br></div><div>I am sure smaller grids and self hosters would love it. </div><div><br></div><div>But do correct me, I not looked into PhysX since last year. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Shaun T. Erickson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ste@smxy.org" target="_blank">ste@smxy.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
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for Windows only, as that would rule out its use by a large
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Yes, PhysX.net is the targeted wrapper.<br>
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<div>Cross compatibility would be nice to maintain but is not a
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