apeNEXT: A Multi-TFlops computer for elementary particle physics [chapter]

F. Bodin, Ph. Boucaud, N. Cabibbo, F. Di Carlo, R. De Pietri, F. Di Renzo, H. Kaldass, A. Lonardo, M. Lukyanov, S. de Luca, J. Micheli, V. Morenas (+9 others)
2004 Advances in Parallel Computing  
We present the apeNEXT project which is currently developing a massively parallel computer with a multi-TFlops performance. Like previous APE machines, the new supercomputer is completely custom designed and is specifically optimized for simulating the theory of strong interactions, quantum chromodynamics (QCD). We assess the performance for key application kernels and make a comparison with other machines used for these kind of simulations. Finally, we give an outlook on future developments. 1
more » ... See the proceedings of the annual Symposium on Lattice Field Theory [1] for an overview. 2 See [2] for a review of the APE project. 3 Estimates for the CPU requirements as a function of the relevant physical parameters are given in [3] .
doi:10.1016/s0927-5452(04)80047-9 fatcat:lfdzjv3spjdxhdjzo3jvlbiofa