{"id":293,"date":"2005-03-25T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-26T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=293"},"modified":"2007-12-30T16:12:26","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T00:12:26","slug":"a-ppu-physics-processing-unit-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"A PPU (Physics Processing Unit) Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first generation of PPU cards are coming to market.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anandtech.com\/cpuchipsets\/showdoc.aspx?i=2376\">Anandtech is reporting<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ageia.com\/\">PhysX PPU card from AGEIA<\/a>.<br \/>\nJust like GPU cards which added 2D graphics acceleration and later 3D, PPU cards will accelerate physics (no pun intended :-) calculations.  Software developers can use the PPU cards to do much better physics simulations without running out of processing power in the CPU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first generation of PPU cards are coming to market. Anandtech is reporting on the PhysX PPU card from AGEIA. Just like GPU cards which added 2D graphics acceleration and later 3D, PPU cards will accelerate physics (no pun intended :-) calculations. Software developers can <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=293\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}