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GRAPE-DR System

GRAPE-DR System Design

• Static Data Flow Method
  - Arrival of data fires operation
  - On-chip network to connect processor element
  - Small delay time for communication
  - High utilization of hardware
   
• 1024 Processor Elements for 1 chip
  - 2,097,152 processor elements for system
  - Implementation as a PCI card for ordinary PC.
  - Compiler portions between PC and PCI card.

GRAPE-DR System Image

GRAPE-DR chip architecture

• Static Data Flow
• Pipeline connection of processor
  elements and distributed shared memory

Hierarchical Structure

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