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Status of the project
August, 1997 Funding approvedMarch, 1999 First ES of the chip delivered
July, 1999 First N-body simulation on GRAPE-6 testboard completed. N=2048, equal-mass, eps=1/512
Oct, 1999 The chip worked fine at 100 MHz clock
Nov, 1999 GRAPE-5 received
1999 Gordon Bell Prize (crick to see even larger image)
,
read the press release by SC99,
or read the paper
Feb, 2000 Processor board under testing.
Nov, 2000 GRAPE-6 received 2000 Gordon Bell Prize.
July, 2001 32-processor board, 1024-chip system
Nov, 2001 GRAPE-6 received 2001 Gordon Bell Prize.
Mar, 2002 48-processor board, 1536-chip system
May, 2002 64-processor board, 2048-chip system
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The GRAPE-6 Chip
GRAPE-6 Test board with Processor module (two
chips)
GRAPE-6 Test board without Processor module
GRAPE-6 Test board with Processor module (one
chip)
GRAPE-6 Processor board with 8 Processor
modules as of 01/30/2000
GRAPE-6 Processor board under testing as of 01/30/2000
GRAPE-6 Enclosure as of 01/30/2000
32-processor board, 1024-chip system
48-processor board, 1536-chip system
64-processor board, 2048-chip system
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