Tuesday, July 8th 2008
Eran Badit of NGOHQ now Part of NVIDIA Developer Program
Eran Badit of the NGOHQ ATI PhysX driver fame now joins the NVIDIA developer program. In a more assertive statement, he believes that NVIDIA wants to "take on Intel with CUDA and to deal with the 'latest' Havok threat from both AMD and Intel.".
In a conversation with TG Daily, Roy Taylor, vice president of developer relations for NVIDIA says: "Eran and I have been talking via email and we have invited him to join NVIDIA's registered developer program. We are delighted at his interest in CUDA and in GPU accelerated physics using PhysX. Eran joins a long line of developers who are now working on using the GPU to run physics and who are doing so with the world's leading physics software - PhysX. "
Derek Perez, in charge of Nvidia's PR department, joined Taylor with this statement:
"We'll help any and all developers are using CUDA. That includes tools…documentation…and hands on help. We're delighted with the interest in CUDA and PhysX; and that includes the news on www.ngohq.com."
Once feared by many for aggressively defending its intellectual property, NVIDIA seems to have changed its approach towards things. In a bid to popularize their technology, it is willing to give the 'PhysX advantage' to even its competitor, AMD. But it still remains to be seen if PhysX performs on Radeon "the way it's meant to perform", now with Eran Badit working in close collaboration with NVIDIA. He says he still awaits samples from AMD so he could devise PhysX drivers for them. Surely NVIDIA has brought in good days for small developers with big aspirations.
Source:
TG Daily
In a conversation with TG Daily, Roy Taylor, vice president of developer relations for NVIDIA says: "Eran and I have been talking via email and we have invited him to join NVIDIA's registered developer program. We are delighted at his interest in CUDA and in GPU accelerated physics using PhysX. Eran joins a long line of developers who are now working on using the GPU to run physics and who are doing so with the world's leading physics software - PhysX. "
Derek Perez, in charge of Nvidia's PR department, joined Taylor with this statement:
"We'll help any and all developers are using CUDA. That includes tools…documentation…and hands on help. We're delighted with the interest in CUDA and PhysX; and that includes the news on www.ngohq.com."
Once feared by many for aggressively defending its intellectual property, NVIDIA seems to have changed its approach towards things. In a bid to popularize their technology, it is willing to give the 'PhysX advantage' to even its competitor, AMD. But it still remains to be seen if PhysX performs on Radeon "the way it's meant to perform", now with Eran Badit working in close collaboration with NVIDIA. He says he still awaits samples from AMD so he could devise PhysX drivers for them. Surely NVIDIA has brought in good days for small developers with big aspirations.
24 Comments on Eran Badit of NGOHQ now Part of NVIDIA Developer Program
Also, Eran is naive to think that AMD will supply him with a card now that he works for nVidia.
This story is turning into a big "look at me, I'm not the evil corporation you all know I am" game.
Also who runs ATI and Nvidia cards in the same system this will only affect those that swap cards around and IMO if you do that without a proper reinstall your a moron anyway
-If this is true how does this affect ATI if they join with Nvidia on Physx development?
-Again if true, will Physx SDK as we know it need to be completely re-written if ATI/AMD joins? (making the development of those driver so far useless)
-Will ATI/AMD have to make their own Physx drivers?
-Does this mean that other games need to be modified in order to get Phsyx working properly?
-etc
It was to my understanding that this was only at the SDK level. This is why your responses to my post incites an argument. Instead of offering information about this subject you resort to name calling and make broad, false allegations which have nothing to do with the subject of this thread.
That just screams fanboy.:laugh:
Nvidia wants to take on Intel. Nothing wrong with that. AMD hasn't done a very good job with that lately, so Nvidia has stepped up to the plate.
Nvidia is still great with R&D, but they need to adjust their cost/price of products.
If Nvidia thinks they can defeat Intel in Processor production/replacement, they need to team up with IBM. So they have enough funds to even try it.
BTW Nvidia pushing PhysX is just like ATi pushing DX10.1, who actually uses that? The version they originally designed the cards to support actually doesn't even meet the specifications of the newest revision used by game developers in the latest SDK. That was news like 2 months ago.
good to see that a man can break into the world of programming by making small programs and drivers these days, back in the 90s that was a good way of getting a job
i remember they used to higher people who made mods and programs years ago like i said
It really isn't a big surprise that ATi isn't sending him samples. Even W1z has complained about ATi's lack or effort to get samples out.Yes, he is. Just add him to your ignore list and move on.
y do they make only super high end supercomputers that cant even play crysis ?
For the IBM Roadrunner, for example, Crysis could be Minesweeper.
Oh well, at least they did a good job of turning it around : )
Creative are you listening?????Don't start stuff if you know someones a fan boy. . .
Look at this, this made me laugh .