gravitySimulator

gravitySimulator is a novel supercomputer that incorporates special-purpose GRAPE hardware to solve the gravitational n-body problem.

It is housed in the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation (CCRG) at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

The computer consists of 32 nodes, each of which contains a GRAPE-6A board ("mini-GRAPE") in a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) slot.

[1] The GRAPE boards use pipelines to compute pairwise forces between particles at a speed of 130 Gflops.

[2] gravitySimulator is used to study the dynamical evolution of galaxies and galactic nuclei.