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Foil 100 Quantum ChromoDynamics (QCD) Special Purpose Machines

From Master Foilset for HPC Achitecture Overview CPS615 Introduction to Computational Science -- Fall Semester 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox
Special Purpose Physics Machines for Foil 100
Here the case for special purpose machines is less compelling than for GRAPE as QCD is "just" regular (easy to parallelize; lowish communication) and extremely floating point intensive.
We illustrate with two machines which are classic MIMD distributed memory architecture with optimized nodes/communication networks
BNL/Columbia QCDSP 400 Megaflops
Univ. of CP-PACS (general physics) 600 Megaflops

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