GRAPE-6A: A single-card GRAPE-6 for parallel PC-GRAPE cluster system
摘要
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 configuration is particularly effective in running parallel tree algorithm. Though the use of parallel tree algorithm 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 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.
引用
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0504407,
title = {GRAPE-6A: A single-card GRAPE-6 for parallel PC-GRAPE cluster system},
author = {Toshiyuki Fukushige and Junichiro Makino and Atsushi Kawai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0504407},
year = {2015}
}
备注
submitted to PASJ