Massively parallel quantum chromodynamics

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 52, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 189-198

  Vranas, Pavlos ^a   Blumrich, Matthias A ^b   Chen, Dong ^b   Gara, Alan ^b   Giampapa, Mark E ^b   Heidelberger, Philip ^b   Salapura, Valentina ^b   Sexton, James C ^b   Soltz, Ron ^a   Bhanot, Gyan ^c  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS;

METHOD OF LATTICE GAUGE THEORY; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS;

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 40749104641     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: 00188646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.521.0189     Document Type: Article

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