The QCDOC Project

P. Boyle; D. Chen; N. Christ; M. Clark; S. Cohen; C. Cristian; Z. Dong; A. Gara; B. Joo; C. Jung; C. Kim; L. Levkova; X. Liao; G. Liu; S. Li; H. Lin; R. Mawhinney; S. Ohta; K. Petrov; T. Wettig; A. Yamaguchi

doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2004.11.179

The QCDOC Project

P. Boyle, D. Chen, N. Christ, M. Clark, S. Cohen, C. Cristian, Z. Dong, A. Gara, B. Joo, C. Jung, C. Kim, L. Levkova, X. Liao, G. Liu, S. Li, H. Lin, R. Mawhinney, S. Ohta, K. Petrov, T. WettigA. Yamaguchi

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The QCDOC project has developed a supercomputer optimised for the needs of Lattice QCD simulations. It provides a very competitive price to sustained performance ratio of around $1 USD per sustained Megaflop/s in combination with outstanding scalability. Thus very large systems delivering over 5 TFlop/s of performance on the evolution of a single lattice is possible. Large prototypes have been built and are functioning correctly. The software environment raises the state of the art in such custom supercomputers. It is based on a lean custom node operating system that eliminates many unnecessary overheads that plague other systems. Despite the custom nature, the operating system implements a standards compliant UNIX-like programming environment easing the porting of software from other systems. The SciDAC QMP interface adds internode communication in a fashion that provides a uniform cross-platform programming environment.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	169-175
Number of pages	7
Journal	Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements
Volume	140
Issue number	SPEC. ISS.
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2004.11.179
State	Published - Mar 2005
Externally published	Yes

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