QPACE: Quantum chromodynamics parallel computing on the cell broadband engine

Gottfried Goldrian; Thomas Huth; Benjamin Krill; Jack Lauritsen; Heiko Schick; Ibrahim Ouda; Simon Heybrock; Dieter Hierl; Thilo Maurer; Nils Meyer; Andreas Schäfer; Stefan Solbrig; Thomas Streuer; Tilo Wettig; Dirk Pleiter; Karl Heinz Sulanke; Frank Winter; Hubert Simma; Sebastiano Fabio Schifano; Raffaele Tripiccione; Andrea Nobile; Matthias Drochner; Thomas Lippert; Zoltan Fodor

doi:10.1109/MCSE.2008.153

QPACE: Quantum chromodynamics parallel computing on the cell broadband engine

Gottfried Goldrian, Thomas Huth, Benjamin Krill, Jack Lauritsen, Heiko Schick, Ibrahim Ouda, Simon Heybrock, Dieter Hierl, Thilo Maurer, Nils Meyer, Andreas Schäfer, Stefan Solbrig, Thomas Streuer, Tilo Wettig, Dirk Pleiter, Karl Heinz Sulanke, Frank Winter, Hubert Simma, Sebastiano Fabio Schifano, Raffaele TripiccioneAndrea Nobile, Matthias Drochner, Thomas Lippert, Zoltan Fodor

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Some of the significant issues associated with the development of quantum chromatodynamics parallel computing on the cell broadband engine (QPACE) projects are discussed. The quantum chromatodynamics QPACE projects use a compute node, based on IBM's PowerXCell 8i multicore processor and couples it to a specifically designed network processor in which each node is connected to its nearest neighbors in a 3D toroidal mesh. A Xilinx Virtex-5 field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is used, to facilitate the network processor's implementation. The QPACE project converts the parallel performance into a linear form in the number of nodes. It also enables programmers to divide an algorithm, implemented on a specific architecture into microtasks, which are performed by the model's processing devices.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	4653204
Pages (from-to)	46-54
Number of pages	9
Journal	Computing in Science and Engineering
Volume	10
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2008.153
State	Published - Nov 2008

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Goldrian, G., Huth, T., Krill, B., Lauritsen, J., Schick, H., Ouda, I., Heybrock, S., Hierl, D., Maurer, T., Meyer, N., Schäfer, A., Solbrig, S., Streuer, T., Wettig, T., Pleiter, D., Sulanke, K. H., Winter, F., Simma, H., Schifano, S. F., ... Fodor, Z. (2008). QPACE: Quantum chromodynamics parallel computing on the cell broadband engine. Computing in Science and Engineering, 10(6), 46-54. Article 4653204. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2008.153

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