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Grape-4: A Teraflops Machine for N-Body Simulations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2016
Abstract
We have developed a massively parallel special-purpose computer system for N-body simulations, GRAPE-4 (GRAvity-PipE 4). The GRAPE-4 system is designed for high-accuracy simulations of dense stellar systems. The GRAPE-4 calculates gravitational forces, their derivatives in time and potential energies. It has a hardware for prediction of positions and velocities, which is used for the individual timestep scheme. Using multi-chip module technology, we integrated 1692 chips of 640 megaflops performance. The peak speed of GRAPE-4 is 1.08 teraflops.
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- Large N-body Simulation
- Information
- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 174: Dynamical Evolution of Stars Clusters , 1996 , pp. 141 - 150
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1996
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