vix.ing · top · new · best · stats · spec

Parallel Computing for QCD on a Pentium Cluster

2000/11/30 by X. Q. Luo, Luo, X. Q., E. B. Gregory +13
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat) #Particle Detector Development and Performance #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-lat

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-lat/0011090

2 pages, for proceedings of The Third Joint Meeting of Chinese Physicists World-wide

arxiv created 2000/11/30 · openalex publication_date 2000/11/30 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Motivated by the computational demands of our research and budgetary constraints which are common to many research institutions, we built a ``poor man's supercomputer'', a cluster of PC nodes which together can perform parallel calculations at a fraction of the price of a commercial supercomputer. We describe the construction, cost, and performance of our cluster.

Related