QCDOC: A 10-teraflops scale computer for lattice QCD
/ Authors
Dong Chen, Norman H. Christ, C. Cristian, Z. Dong, Alan Gara, K. Garg, B. Joó, C. Kim, L. Levkova, X. Liao
and 5 more authors
/ Abstract
Abstract The architecture of a new class of computers, optimized for lattice QCD calculations, is described. An individual node is based on a single integrated circuit containing a PowerPC 32-bit integer processor with a 1 Gflops 64-bit IEEE floating point unit, 4 Mbyte of memory, 8 Gbit/sec nearest-neighbor communications and additional control and diagnostic circuitry. The machine's name, QCDOC, derives from “QCD On a Chip”.
Journal: arXiv: High Energy Physics - Lattice