A High Performance Massively Parallel Approach for Real Time Deformable Body Physics Simulation

Single processor technology has been evolving across last decades, but due to physical limitations of chip manufacturing process, the industry is pursuing alternatives to sustain computational power growth, including the creation of multi-core systems. Parallel computing targets problems that are scalable and possibly distributed, dividing the problem into smaller pieces. This approach may be explored to satisfy real time constraints required by real time physics simulation. The purpose of this work is to introduce an optimal solution to implement accurate simulation of deformable bodies in real time. This is accomplished through the use of a meshless simulation technique, known as Point Based Animation, implemented using a massive parallel approach provided by NVIDIA Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA). Our implementation showed significative improvements on performance in comparison to the former CPU one: impressive speedups of about 20 times could be achieved in the simulati...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: sbacpad
• Authors: Thiago S. M. C. de Farias, Mozart W. S. Almeida, João Marcelo X. N. Teixeira, Veronica Teichrieb, Judith Kelner
• Keywords: Computer Architecture, Deformable Bodies, Hardware, Real Time, SBACPAD 2008, Time Physics Simulation