The most important producers of video chip actively search for the alternative application methods of the increased computational abilities of their creations. Company AMD moves to the technology stream computing, which makes possible to accelerate the specialized calculations with the aid of video card on the base of chips ATI. As the variety of this technology it is possible to name the acceleration of physical effects in games. Participants in the calculations projects already obtained the possibility to excute calculations using video card ATI series.
Company NVIDIA has already long time ago hinted, that physics in games can be accelerated with the aid of computational resources video chip : the family of graphic card geForce 8800 support the technology quantum effects exactly for this. Motherboard on the base of newest chipsets NVIDIA are equipped with three slots PCI express x16 for the possibility to use third physical video card.
As reports associate with the reference to the Vice Presidents NVIDIA, this company makes strategic investments in the company acceleware, which specializes in the development of software, which makes possible to operate graphic chips in the usual calculations. Collaboration between NVIDIA and Acceleware was more than two years. As the specific tasks, which can be accelerated by video chip, are the design of cell phones, processing seismic data, design of printed-circuit boards(PCB), medicines development , design of nano-photon communication line devices, design of lithographic masks and many others.
Investments NVIDIA in the development of similar software can in the course of time lead to the fact that the company will get the leadership in the sphere of calculations acceleration with the aid of video chip. Without proper software any revolutionary product has low demand. We hope that the developments Of acceleware will find use also in everyday sphere. If we consider that in the next five years the processors with the integrated graphic core will become standard, the appearance of optimized software will bring benefit for the producers of central processors. NVIDIA, however refuses to have anything to do with plans of creation of hybrid processors . Intel and AMD such processors intensively develop.