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What are MD-GRAPE's Properties

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- Project Leader : Dr. Toshikazu Ebisuzaki, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Tokyo
- Primary Chip Design : IBM Tokyo Research Lab
The IBM group working on the MD-GRAPE2 chip and board design at the Tokyo Research Lab includes Yoshinao Kobayashi, Nobuyuki Ohba, Takeo Nakada, Kohji Takano, Seiji Munetoh, and Shigenori Shimizu (group manager).

- Chip Manufacturer : IBM Microelectronics Division, Burlington, NY
  • 5-Metal 0.25 um CMOS 6s
  • 1.47million gates
  • 100 MHz system clock
  • 170 Kbits RAM on chip for force polynomial coefficients
  • 16 Gflops per chip in four pipelines
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