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GRAPE-6A: A Single-Card GRAPE-6 for Parallel PC-GRAPE Cluster Systems
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Abstract
In this paper, we describe the design and performance of GRAPE-6A, a special-purpose computer for gravitational many-body simulations. It was designed to be used with a PC cluster, in which each node has one GRAPE-6A. Such a configuration is particularly cost-effective in running parallel tree algorithms. Though the use of parallel tree algorithms was possible with the original GRAPE-6 hardware, it was not very cost-effective since a single GRAPE-6 board was still too fast and too expensive. Therefore, we designed GRAPE-6A as a single PCI card to minimize the reproduction cost and to optimize the computing speed. The peak performance is 130 Gflops for one GRAPE-6A board and 3.1 Tflops for our 24 node cluster. We describe the implementation of the tree, TreePM and individual timestep algorithms on both a single GRAPE-6A system and GRAPE-6A cluster. Using the tree algorithm on our 16-node GRAPE-6A system, we can complete a collisionless simulation with 100 million particles (8000 steps) within 10 days.
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Title: GRAPE-6A: A Single-Card GRAPE-6 for Parallel PC-GRAPE Cluster Systems
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Abstract
In this paper, we describe the design and performance of GRAPE-6A, a special-purpose computer for gravitational many-body simulations.
It was designed to be used with a PC cluster, in which each node has one GRAPE-6A.
Such a configuration is particularly cost-effective in running parallel tree algorithms.
Though the use of parallel tree algorithms was possible with the original GRAPE-6 hardware, it was not very cost-effective since a single GRAPE-6 board was still too fast and too expensive.
Therefore, we designed GRAPE-6A as a single PCI card to minimize the reproduction cost and to optimize the computing speed.
The peak performance is 130 Gflops for one GRAPE-6A board and 3.
1 Tflops for our 24 node cluster.
We describe the implementation of the tree, TreePM and individual timestep algorithms on both a single GRAPE-6A system and GRAPE-6A cluster.
Using the tree algorithm on our 16-node GRAPE-6A system, we can complete a collisionless simulation with 100 million particles (8000 steps) within 10 days.
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