Astrophysical supercomputing using particle simulations : Proceedings of the 208th symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Tokyo, Japan, 10-13 July 2001
The symposium was held in in July 2001 in Tokyo. The Scientific Organizing Committee recommended its structure as a confluence of three distinct strands. One strand was the study of the dynamics of dense stellar systems and especially that of globular clusters, the second strand woven into the symposium concerns the use of the GRAPE family of special-purpose supercomputers. The third strand consists of cosmological simulations.