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The GRAPE project: Current Status and Future Outlook

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Junichiro Makino
Junichiro Makino*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan

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I'll briefly overview the present status and the future of the GRAPE project. GRAPE (GRAvity PiPE) project is a project to design, develop and use special-purpose computers for astrophysical N-body simulations to do large-scale N-body simulations. Our first machine, GRAPE-1 was completed in 1989 and offered the speed of 240 Mflops. Since then, we have continued to develop newer and faster machines, and the newest machine, the GRAPE-6, has achieved the peak speed of 32 Tflops. I'll briefly discuss GRAPE-6 and its parallel architecture, and then discuss the possible form of GRAPE-7, the next generation machines.

Type
Introduction
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 208: Astrophysical Supercomputing using Particle Simulations , 2003 , pp. 13 - 24
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2003 

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