2 papers
astro-ph2002
Collisional Stellar Dynamics, Gas Dynamics and Special Purpose Computing
R. Spurzem, J. Makino, T. Fukushige +6
Challenging stellar dynamical problems, such as the study of gravothermal oscillations in star clusters, have in the past initiated the very successful building of GRAPE special pu…
astro-ph1999
AHA-GRAPE: Adaptive Hydrodynamic Architecture - GRAvity PipE
T. Kuberka, A. Kugel, R. Maenner +3
In astrophysics numerical star cluster simulations and hydrodynamical methods like SPH require computational performance in the petaflop range. The GRAPE family of ASIC-based accel…