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Special-Purpose Computer for Gravitational\protect
N-body System: GRAPE
Junichiro Makino
Department of System Sciences, University of Tokyo
3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
Abstract:
In this paper I'll briefly overview the GRAPE (GRAvity PipE) project,
in which we develop a series of special-purpose computers for stellar
dynamics. First, I overview the evolution of high-performance
general-purpose computers. It is shown that the ``hardware
efficiency'' of general-purpose computers has been going down
exponentially, and will continue to do so. Then, I'll describe the
approach of building the special-purpose computers as an
alternative. I also briefly describe the past of GRAPE project, and
the development plan for GRAPE-6, which will provide around 200 Tflops
by the year 2000.
Jun Makino
Fri Jun 5 15:55:17 JST 1998