The GRAPE-4, a Teraflops Stellar Dynamics Computer

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dc.creatorHut, Piet
dc.date1997-04-28
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:23:18Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T02:23:18Z
dc.descriptionRecently, special-purpose computers have surpassed general-purpose computers in the speed with which large-scale stellar dynamics simulations can be performed. Speeds up to a Teraflops are now available, for simulations in a variety of fields, such as planetary formation, star cluster dynamics, galactic nuclei, galaxy interactions, galaxy formation, large scale structure, and gravitational lensing. Future speed increases for special-purpose computers will be even more dramatic: a Petaflops version, tentatively named the GRAPE-6, could be built within a few years, whereas general-purpose computers are expected to reach this speed somewhere in the 2010-2015 time frame. Boards with a handful of chips from such a machine could be made available to individual astronomers. Such a board, attached to a fast workstation, will then deliver Teraflops speeds on a desktop, around the year 2000.
dc.description12 pages, LaTex, uses paspconf.sty. To appear in `Computational Astrophysics', the Proceedings of the 12th `Kingston meeting' on Theoretical Astrophysics, eds. D. A. Clarke and M. J. West, ASP Conference Series, Vol. XXX (San Francisco: ASP)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9704277
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9704277
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/11194
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleThe GRAPE-4, a Teraflops Stellar Dynamics Computer
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