Physics computing on GPU

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I’m currently writing a rendering engine based on Vulkan.
For physics simulations, I plan on doing most/all of the calculations on the GPU.

So my question is, would it be better to use a shader running on Vulkan Compute for this, or an OpenCL kernel?

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If it is tightly coupled with vis, I would start with Vulkan. OpenCL interop does not seem to get much traction: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Ecosystem/issues/42. Meanwhile scientific compute features are rolled out in Vulkan (like controling rounding modes).

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