Paper Info
Title
QPACE -- a QCD parallel computer based on Cell processors
Abstract
QPACE is a novel parallel computer which has been developed to be primarily used for lattice QCD simulations. The compute power is provided by the IBM PowerXCell 8i processor, an enhanced version of the Cell processor that is used in the Playstation 3. The QPACE nodes are interconnected by a custom, application optimized 3-dimensional torus network implemented on an FPGA. To achieve the very high packaging density of 26 TFlops per rack a new water cooling concept has been developed and successfully realized. In this paper we give an overview of the architecture and highlight some important technical details of the system. Furthermore, we provide initial performance results and report on the installation of 8 QPACE racks providing an aggregate peak performance of 200 TFlops.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2009
Science
3 dimensional,high energy physics,lattice qcd,hardware architecture,parallel computer
Field
DocType
Volume
Quantum chromodynamics,QPACE,IBM,Rack,Grid network,Parallel computing,Field-programmable gate array,Lattice QCD,Water cooling,Physics
Journal
abs/0911.2174
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
PoS LAT2009:001,2009
6
1.41
References 
Authors
6
35
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
H. Baier1243.34
H. Boettiger2255.07
Matthias Drochner3192.64
N. Eicker492.53
U. Fischer5192.64
Z. Fodor6192.64
A. Frommer7255.19
C. Gomez861.41
Goldrian, G.9243.55
S. Heybrock1061.41
D. Hierl11192.64
M. Hüsken12474.76
T. Huth13192.64
B. Krill14314.09
J. Lauritsen1561.41
T. Lippert1661.41
T. Maurer17192.64
Nils Meyer18226.40
A. Nobile19203.35
I. Ouda20192.64
M. Pivanti21283.71
D. Pleiter22265.87
A. Schäfer23192.64
H. Schick24192.64
F. Schifano25192.98
H. Schick2661.41
S. Solbrig27192.64
T. Streuer28192.98
K.-H. Sulanke29192.64
R. Tripiccione307312.68
J.-S. Vogt31315.11
J.-S. Vogt32315.11
T. Wettig33539.11
T. Wettig34539.11
F. Winter35192.98