Title
GRAPE-DR: 2-Pflops massively-parallel computer with 512-core, 512-Gflops processor chips for scientific computing
Abstract
We describe the GRAPE-DR (Greatly Reduced Array of Processor Elements with Data Reduction) system, which will consist of 4096 processor chips each with 512 cores operating at the clock frequency of 500 MHz. The peak speed of a processor chip is 512Gflops (single precision) or 256 Gflops (double precision). The GRAPE-DR chip works as an attached processor to standard PCs. Currently, a PCI-X board with single GRAPE-DR chip is in operation. We are developing a 4-chip board with PCI-Express interface, which will have the peak performance of 1 Tflops. The final system will be a cluster of 512 PCs each with two GRAPE-DR boards. We plan to complete the final system by early 2009. The application area of GRAPE-DR covers particle-based simulations such as astrophysical many-body simulations and molecular-dynamics simulations, quantum chemistry calculations, various applications which requires dense matrix operations, and many other compute-intensive applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1145/1362622.1362647
SC
Keywords
Field
DocType
pci-x board,single grape-dr chip,double precision,final system,512-gflops processor chip,attached processor,grape-dr chip work,grape-dr board,scientific computing,processor chip,2-pflops massively-parallel computer,4-chip board,peak performance,computer science,distributed shared memory,bandwidth,architecture,chip,government,vector,multiprocessor,space technology,shared memory,arithmetic,data reduction,pipelines,computational modeling,information science,memory management,registers,fat tree,frequency,quantum chemistry
Single-precision floating-point format,Shared memory,FLOPS,Computer science,Massively parallel,Parallel computing,Double-precision floating-point format,Multiprocessing,Chip,Computational science,Clock rate
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
17
1.27
1
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Junichiro Makino114734.17
Kei Hiraki238851.95
Mary Inaba313113.48