[48002] in Cypherpunks
QCD_566
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Thu Jan 25 13:08:19 1996
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 12:59:19 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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
