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The QCDSP computer (Quantum Chromodynamics on Digital Signal Processors) is an inexpensive, massively parallel computer intended primarily for simulations in lattice gauge theory. Simulations of quantum chromodynamics should produce the masses of hadrons, from first principles, and also many phenomenologically important parameters related to their interactions. We discuss some of the physics goals for this computer, its architecture and the status of the 8,192 node machine at Columbia and the 12,288 node machine at the RIKEN-BNL Research Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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Mawhinney, R.D. (2001). The QCDSP Computer: Particle Physics With 20,000 Processors. In: Ebisuzaki, T., Makino, J. (eds) New Horizons of Computational Science. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 263. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0864-8_19
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