QCD_566
John Young
jya at pipeline.com
Thu Jan 25 12:06:13 PST 1996
Donald Weingarten, IBM TJW Research Center, writes in
February SciAm about the center's investigations of quark
theory by the "GF11" parallel processing computer dedicated
solely to quantum chromodynamics (QCD) -- a computer which
uses 566 parallel processors.
He describes building the hardware and software of this
unique tool and what two years of continuous computations
revealed.
An aside explains a die-rolling shortcut method called
Monte Carlo to circumvent the enormous amount of
computation that lattice QCD would otherwise entail.
QCD_566
More information about the cypherpunks-legacy
mailing list