New Horizons of Computational Science: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Supercomputing held in Tokyo, Japan, September 1—3, 1997 (Astrophysics and Space Science Library Book 263)

This conference proceedings covers an exceptionally wide range of subjects in computational science, from astrophysics to molecular science and from general-purpose high-performance computers to special-purpose computing devices. The unique nature of this book is that the main topic is the interaction between the requirement from application and the design of high-performance computers. In particular, special-purpose computers for molecular dynamics, Lattice QCD, and astrophysics are discussed. This book will be of interest to astrophysicists, physicists and chemists who are involved in computer simulation. It will also be of interest to computer scientists with interest in hardware architecture of high-performance computers. Front Matter....Pages i-xx Stellar Evolution, Stellar Dynamics and Tera-Flops Computation....Pages 1-10 Simulation of Nature By Computer....Pages 11-20 Supercomputing and Evolution in Close Binaries....Pages 21-28 Stellar Dynamics of Dense Stellar Systems....Pages 29-38 Stellar Dynamics on 200 Tflops Special-Purpose Computers....Pages 39-48 Astrophysical N-Body Simulations: Algorithms and Challenges....Pages 49-58 Star Cluster Simulations....Pages 59-68 Stellar Dynamical Simulations of Galaxies and of Galaxy Systems Using the Marseille Grape-3 Systems....Pages 69-72 Accretion of Planets and Moons....Pages 73-81 What We Learned From Special Purpose Computers....Pages 83-93 Reconfigurable Computing....Pages 95-105 Special-Purpose Computer for Radio Astronomy....Pages 107-115 Special-Purpose Computers for Classical Particle Simulations....Pages 117-127 Molecular Dynamics Machine: Highly Parallelized Special-Purpose-Computer for Molecular Dynamics Simulations....Pages 129-132 Molecular Simulations With The MD-Grape Special-Purpose Computer....Pages 133-142 High Performance Computing in Biophysics: Recent Experiences and Developments of Charmm....Pages 143-152 Massive Parallelism: the Hardware for Computational Chemistry?....Pages 153-168 Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Ion Channels....Pages 169-181 The QCDSP Computer: Particle Physics With 20,000 Processors....Pages 183-190 The CP-PACS Project and Lattice QCD....Pages 191-200 Three Generations of APE Projects: Lessons and Perspective....Pages 201-209 Vector-Parallel Processing and Fujitsu VPP300E/700E Supercomputer System....Pages 211-218 The Evolution of Rotating Collisional Stellar Systems....Pages 219-222 Effects of The Alfvén Wave on The Gravitational Instability in the Interstellar Medium....Pages 223-227 N-Body Simulation of Halo Formation Using GRAPE-4....Pages 229-232 The PCI Interface for Grape Systems: PCI-HIB....Pages 233-237 Fragmentation of Molecular Clouds: The Initial Phase of a Stellar Cluster....Pages 239-242 Formation of Star Clusters in the Magellanic Clouds....Pages 243-246 Three-Dimensional MHD Simulations of Accretion Disks and Jet Formation....Pages 247-250 Gravitational Collapse of Rotating Clouds: Bar Formation in a Self-Similarly Contracting Disk....Pages 251-255 The Formation and Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies: Hydrodynamics and Color Gradient....Pages 257-260 Parallel 3D Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Turbulent Dark Cloud Flows....Pages 261-264 Photoionization of a Clumpy Universe....Pages 265-268 Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics with Parallel Virtual Machine....Pages 269-272 Jets From Time-Dependent Accretion Flows Onto a Black Hole....Pages 273-277 Supercomputing in the Astronomical Institute of Romanian Academy....Pages 279-284 Anisotropic Fokker-Planck Models of Globular Cluster Evolution....Pages 285-288 An Efficient Parallel Hierarchical Algorithm for Module Placement....Pages 289-293 The Efficient Parallel Newton-GMRES Algorithm for Computational Fluid Dynamics....Pages 295-301 Molecular Mechanism of Homogeneous Nucleation in Vapor Phase: Lennard-Jones Fluid....Pages 303-307 Development of Special Purpose Computer for Cosmic Hydrodynamics with SPH Method....Pages 309-312 Proceedings of the International Symposium on Supercomputing held in Tokyo, Japan, September 1-3, 1997