OPAL (software)

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The Open Physics Abstraction Layer (OPAL) is an open source realtime physics engine API similar to PAL. It was originally supported only by ODE, but should be extendable to run off of multiple engines. OPAL is free software, released under both the LGPL and the BSD license.

OPAL is a high-level interface for low-level physics engines used in games, robotics simulations, and other 3D applications. Features a simple C++ API, intuitive objects (e.g. Solids, Joints, Motors, Sensors), and XML-based file storage for complex objects.

The latest version of OPAL is 0.4.0

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Physics processing unit (PPU)
Audio Processing Unit (APU)
Graphics processing unit (GPU)
Stream processor
Shader
HLSL2GLSL
Lib Sh, a GPGPU library for C++
Stream programming
PAL a free (LGPL and BSD licensed) and open source cross platform physics engine
Bullet, a free (zlib licensed) and open source cross platform physics engine
Havok, commercial physics engine middleware Software development kit for computer and video games
PhysX, commercial realtime physics engine middleware Software development kit developed by AGEIA
Close to Metal, AMD/ATI's competing GPGPU technology for ATI Radeon-based GPUs
CUDA, Nvidia's competing GPGPU technology for GeForce-based GPUs
GPGPU (General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units)