Jun Makino
University of Tokyo
In this talk, I'll report the status and future plan for our new hardwares, GRAPE-5 and GRAPE-6.
GRAPE-5 is the successor of the widely-used GRAPE-3A, with 10x improvement in calculation speed, communication speed and relative accuracy. A prototype system with 4 chips (peak: 21.6 Gflops) has been working since October 1998, and commercial version will be shipped by summer 1999.
GRAPE-6 is the successor of the Teraflops GRAPE-4. The full-scale machine with >100 Tflops peak speed will be ready by somewhere in 2000.
In the meantime, small-scale versions of GRAPE-6, namely Baby GRAPE-6 with 2 chips (about 60 Gflops) and GRAPE-6 junior with 16 chips (0.5 Tflops) will be ready by mid-1999, and will be commercially available in 2000.