QCD on the cell broadband engine

F. Belletti; G. Bilardi; M. Drochner; N. Eicker; Z. Fodor; D. Hierl; H. Kaldass; T. Lippert; T. Maurer; N. Meyer; A. Nobile; D. Pleiter; A. Schafer; F. Schifano; H. Simma; S. Solbrig; T. Streuer; R. Tripiccione; T. Wettig

QCD on the cell broadband engine

F. Belletti, G. Bilardi, M. Drochner, N. Eicker, Z. Fodor, D. Hierl, H. Kaldass, T. Lippert, T. Maurer, N. Meyer, A. Nobile, D. Pleiter, A. Schafer, F. Schifano, H. Simma, S. Solbrig, T. Streuer, R. Tripiccione, T. Wettig

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We evaluate IBM’s Enhanced Cell Broadband Engine (BE) as a possible building block of a new generation of lattice QCD machines. The Enhanced Cell BE will provide full support of double-precision floating-point arithmetics, including IEEE-compliant rounding. We have developed a performance model and applied it to relevant lattice QCD kernels. The performance estimates are supported by micro- and application-benchmarks that have been obtained on currently available Cell BE-based computers, such as IBM QS20 blades and PlayStation 3. The results are encouraging and show that this processor is an interesting option for lattice QCD applications. For a massively parallel machine on the basis of the Cell BE, an application-optimized network needs to be developed.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	039
Journal	Proceedings of Science
Volume	42
State	Published - 2007
Event	25th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, LATTICE 2007 - Regensburg, Germany Duration: Jul 30 2007 → Aug 4 2007

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