QCDSP: A Teraflop Scale Massively Parallel Supercomputer
Author(s) -
Dong Chen,
Ping Chen,
Norman H. Christ,
Robert G. Edwards,
George Fleming,
Alan Gara,
Sten Hansen,
Chulwoo Jung,
Adrian Kahler,
Stephen Kasow,
Anthony D. Kennedy,
Greg Kilcup,
Yu Bing Luo,
Catalin Malureanu,
Robert D. Mawhinney,
John Parsons,
Jim Sexton,
ChengZhong Sui,
Pavlos Vranas
Publication year - 1997
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Book series
ISBN - 0-89791-985-8
DOI - 10.1109/sc.1997.10017
We discuss the work of the QCDSP collaboration to build an inexpensive Teraflop scale massively parallel computer suitable for computations in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). The computer is a collection of nodes connected in a four dimensional toroidial grid with nearest neighbor bit serial communications. An 8192-node computer with a peak speed of 0.4 Teraflops is being constructed at Columbia University for a cost of $1.8 Million. A 12,288-node machine with a peak speed of 0.6 Teraflops is being constructed for the RIKEN Brookhaven Research Center. Other computers have been built including a 50 Gigaflop version for Florida State University.
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