Highlights of Science by GRAPE

Some of the important results obtained by GRAPEs are briefly described here. (Note: This is quite preliminary and yet to be completed.) Please also look at Publications and Talks.

• Structure of CDM dark haloes, determined by more than 10 simulations with 2 million particles on GRAPE-5+treecode, by Fukushige and Makino (preprint).
• First detailed N-body simulations of real open clusters with single and binary star evolution, by Portegies Zwart et al. (2001).
• Formation of the moon from the disk generated by the Giant Impact, by Kokubo et al. (2000).
• Ruaway collision and formation of massive star in young star clusters, by Portegies Zwart et al. (1999).
• Resent scientific results by GRAPE-3 and 4 reviewed in Science, by Hut and Makino (1999).
• A comparison between N-body simulations, up to N=32k, and Fokker-Planck calculations, by Portegies Zwart et al. (1998).
• Anthology of GRAPE and other resuls of the collaborative experiment, by Heggie et al. (1997).
• Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics, implemented in hardware, leading to an additional speed-up of one or two orders of magnitude, discussed by Hut et al. (1997).
• Cross sections for galaxy-galaxy scattering, obtained through 500 scattering simulations on the GRAPE-3A, by Makino and Hut (1997).
• The existence of gravothermal oscillations in N-body systems demonstrated on the GRAPE-4, by Makino (1996).