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Astrophysics on the GRAPE family of special-purpose computers
1P. Hut is at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA. J. Makino is in the Department of General Systems Study, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan.
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|January 23, 1999
Abstract:
The GRAPE-4, the world's fastest computer in 1995-1997, has produced some major scientific results through a wide diversity of large-scale simulations in astrophysics. Applications have included planetary formation, the evolution of star clusters and galactic nuclei, and the formation of galaxies and clusters of galaxies.