GRAPE project for a dedicated tera-flops computer

Author

Sugimoto, Daiichiro ; Makino, Junichiro ; Taiji, Makoto ; Ebisuzaki, Toshikazu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Earth Sci. & Astron., Tokyo Univ., Japan

fYear

1995

fDate

15-17 Mar 1995

Firstpage

38

Lastpage

44

Abstract

We are constructing a one tera-flops machine dedicated to astronomical many-body problems. It consists of parallelized GRAPE machines connected to a host workstation. The GRAPE machines only calculate forces between particles in the system by pipeline architecture. We designed and fabricated LSI chips for it, and about 2000 chips are being connected in parallel. The machine will be in operation by summer of 1995. General concept and features of the machine, mode of parallelization, and their merits are discussed in addition to scientific objectives of the project

Keywords

astronomy; astronomy computing; many-body problems; parallel architectures; pipeline processing; 1 TFLOPS; GRAPE machines; astronomical many-body problems; host workstation; pipeline architecture; Art; Astronomy; Computer graphics; Educational institutions; Geoscience; Gravity; Information science; Large scale integration; Pipelines; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Algorithms/Architecture Synthesis, 1995. Proceedings., First Aizu International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Fukushima

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7038-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AISPAS.1995.401357

Filename

401357