QCDOC Computer Architecture

High performance supercomputing construction with QCDOC started on September 08, 2004 in the Information Technology Division. QCDOC is a new computer architecture that is designed to be highly scalable with low latency communications and unprecedented computing performance. QCDOC predecessor QCDSP won the Gordon Bell prize at Supercomputing 98 and was acknowledged as the worlds fastest non-commercial supercomputer. BNL again with its collaborators and machine designers Columbia University, University of Edinburgh and the RIKEN BNL Research Center will build a total of almost 40 Teraflops of QCDOC computing and repeat the 1998 accomplishment of building the worlds fastest non-commercial supercomputer. These computers are in support of the RIKEN BNL Research Center here at BNL.

The RIKEN BNL Research Center was established in April 1997 at Brookhaven National Laboratory. It is funded by the Rikagaku Kenkyusho (RIKEN, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research) of Japan. The Center is dedicated to the study of strong interactions, including spin physics, lattice QCD and RHIC physics through the nurturing of a new generation of young physicists.

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Last Modified: February 1, 2008

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