THANKS! The GRAPE project at ESO was made possible by the Cluster of Excellence for Fundamental Physics Origin and Structure of the Universe.

Important: Please add the following acknowledgment to all publications based on results that are (even partially) based on this facility: "This research was supported by the DFG cluster of excellence Origin and Structure of the Universe (www.universe-cluster.de)."

In order to keep track of the relevant publications, please send a (pdf) copy of the publication to Markus Kissler-Patig for inclusion on the Cluster web pages.

DOCUMENTION and LINKS

We have installed 6 Grape6-BLX64 boards in 6 Dell Precision 690 respectively.

Many thanks to Evghenii Gaburov (Universiteit van Amsterdam) and Mark Gieles for their help with the installation.

Find below some documentation and links that might be useful to users.
Some docs are specialised for installers and just archived here.
If you would like to share a useful link, library or doc, please send it to us!

Documentation

• Grape6-BLX64 User Manual
• Grape6-BLX64 data sheet
• Dell precision 690 configuration for info only.
• Customed installation instructions, not needed by user.

Useful links

• Jun Makino's GRAPE page
• Starlab: A Software Environment for Collisional Stellar Dynamics is installed on all grape machines.

USAGE OF THE GRAPES

The current scheme for using one or more of the six GRAPES is really informal:
Please send an email to Mark Gieles or Markus Kissler-Patig with a short description of what you would like to do and how much computing time you would need. We will then do our best to schedule you below.

Grape #	Foreseen Usage
Grape 1 (grape1.hq.eso.org)	E.Gaburov/M.Gieles Mar 09 - Jun 09
Grape 2 (grape2.hq.eso.org)	E.Gaburov/M.Gieles Mar 09 - Jun 09
Grape 3 (grape3.hq.eso.org)	E.Gaburov/M.Gieles Mar 09 - Jun 09
Grape 4 (grape4.hq.eso.org)	E.Gaburov/M.Gieles Mar 09 - Jun 09
Grape 5 (grape5.hq.eso.org)	B.Jalali Mar 09 - Dec 09
Grape 6 (grape6.hq.eso.org)	B.Jalali Mar 09 - Dec 09