A floating point engine for lattice gauge calculations

D. Husby; R. Atac; A. Cook; J. Deppe; M. Fischler; I. Gaines; T. Nash; T. Pham; T. Zmuda; E. Eichten; P. Mackenzie; G. Hockney; H. B. Thacker; D. Toussaint

doi:10.1109/23.34538

A floating point engine for lattice gauge calculations

D. Husby, R. Atac, A. Cook, J. Deppe, M. Fischler, I. Gaines, T. Nash, T. Pham, T. Zmuda, E. Eichten, P. Mackenzie, G. Hockney, H. B. Thacker, D. Toussaint

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The latest in low cost computing solutions from the Fermilab Advanced Computer Program is targeted at Lattice Gauge theory calculations and delivers supercomputer performance at a fraction of the cost. A typical system with 256 processors, 2.5 Gigabytes of memory, and 64 Gigabytes of on-line tape storage, delivers a peak performance of 5 billion floating point operations per second. The programming environment, Canopy, provides a comprehensive, hardware independent, distributed processing platform from within the more familiar environments of FORTRAN, C, and UNIX. This paper describes the individual processing elements of the system and gives a brief description of the Canopy software.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	734-737
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
Volume	36
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/23.34538
State	Published - Feb 1989

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