Performance evaluation and tuning of GRAPE-6 - Towards 40 "real" Tflops

Proceedings of the 2003 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing, SC 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Makino, Junichiro ^a   Kokubo, Eiichiro ^b   Fukushige, Toshiyuki ^a   Daisaka, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

GRAVITATIONAL INTERACTION; MANY-BODY PROBLEMS; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PIPELINE PROCESSOR; REAL APPLICATIONS; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SPECIAL-PURPOSE COMPUTER; TIME INTEGRATION;

FRUITS; GRAVITATION;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84877057120     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1048935.1050153     Document Type: Conference Paper

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