Overview of the QCDSP and QCDOC computers

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 49, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 351-365

  Boyle, Peter A ^a   Chen, Dong ^b   Christ, Norman H ^c   Clark, Michael A ^a   Cohen, Saul D ^c   Cristian, Calin ^d   Dong, Zhihua ^c   Gara, Alan ^b   Joó, Bálint ^a   Jung, Chulwoo ^e   Kim, Changhoan ^c   Levkova, Ludmila A ^f   Liao, Xiadong ^g   Liu, Guofeng ^h   Mawhinney, Robert D ^c   Ohta, Shigemi ⁱ   Petrov, Konstantin ^e   Wettig, Tilo ^j   Yamaguchi, Azusa ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d CITIGROUP   (United States)

^e BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UBS Investment Bank   (United States)

^h Gluon Capital LLC   (United States)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Japan)

^j UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); QUANTUM THEORY;

EMBEDDED DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; ETHERNET; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; SERIAL COMMUNICATION UNIT; SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP TECHNOLOGY;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 21044436873     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.492.0351     Document Type: Article

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