Last update:
Apr 1, 2000
|
|
|
|
Lattice QCD with Commodity Hardware and Software
|
Donald Holmgren,
Paul Mackenzie,
Donald Petravick,
James Simone
Fermilab
Speaker:
Donald Holmgren
Large scale QCD Monte Carlo calculations have typically been
performed on either commercial supercomputers or specially built
massively parallel computers such as Fermilab's ACPMAPS.
Commodity computer systems offer impressive floating point performance
at a cost which rapidly outstrips the performance to price ratio
of commercial supercomputers. As high performance networking components
become available at comparable cost, it
has become reasonable to assemble a massively parallel supercomputer
from commodity parts.
We describe the work and progress to date of a collaboration working on this
problem. It is made up of high energy theorists and computing professionals
from the Fermilab Theoretical Physics Group, the Fermilab Computing Division,
the MILC Collaboration and the Cornell Particle Theory Group.
Presentation:  | Short Paper: |
|
Bulletins
| Home | Bulletins | Committees | Scientific Program | Docs by topics | Social Event | Conference Location | Secretariat |
Privacy Policy |