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Gravity Pipe : ウィキペディア英語版 | Gravity Pipe
Gravity Pipe (abbreviated GRAPE) is a project which uses hardware acceleration to perform gravitational computations. Integrated with Beowulf-style commodity computers, the GRAPE system calculates the force of gravity that a given mass, such as a star, exerts on others.〔(ABCNEWS.com : Cutting Edge: The GRAPE-6 Supercomputer )〕 The project resides at Tokyo University. The GRAPE hardware acceleration component "pipes" the force computation to the general-purpose computer serving as a node in a parallelized cluster as the innermost loop of the gravitational model. Its shortened name, GRAPE, was chosen as an intentional reference to the Apple Inc. line of computers.〔 == Method == The primary calculation in GRAPE hardware is a summation of the forces between a particular star and every other star in the simulation. Several versions (GRAPE-1, GRAPE-3 and GRAPE-5) use the Logarithmic Number System (LNS) in the pipeline to calculate the approximate force between two stars, and take the antilogarithms of the x, y and z components before adding them to their corresponding total.〔J Makino and M. Taiji, ''Scientific Simulations with Special Purpose Computers: The GRAPE Systems'', Wiley. 1998.〕 The GRAPE-2, GRAPE-4 and GRAPE-6 use floating point arithmetic for more accurate calculation of such forces. The advantage of the logarithmic-arithmetic versions is they allow more and faster parallel pipes for a given hardware cost because all but the sum portion of the GRAPE algorithm (1.5 power of the sum of the squares of the input data divided by the input data) is easy to perform with LNS. GRAPE-DR consists of a large number of simple processors, all operating in the SIMD fashion.〔J Makino, Specialized Hardware for Supercomputing, SciDAC Review, Issue 12 (Spring 2009), IOP. 2009.〕
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