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Grape-6

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

J. Makino
J. Makino*
Affiliation:
Department of Systems Science, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153, Japan

Abstract

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We overview the GRAPE-6 project, a follow-up of the teraflops GRAPE-4 project. GRAPE-6 will be completed by 1999-2000 and its planned peak speed is 200 Tflops. Its architecture will be largely similar to that of GRAPE-4, which is a specialized hardware to calculate the gravitational interaction between particles. The improvement of the speed will mainly come from the advance in the silicon semiconductor technology. GRAPE-6 will enable us to directly simulate the evolution of star clusters with up to 1 million stars.

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