Published 1986 | Version v1
Book

The GF11 supercomputer

  • 1. IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

Description

GF11 is a parallel computer currently under construction at the IBM Yorktown Research Center. The machine incorporates 576 floating-point processors arrangedin a modified SIMD architecture. Each has space for 2 Mbytes of memory and is capable of 20 Mflops, giving the total machine a peak of 1.125 Gbytes of memory and 11.52 Gflops. The floating-point processors are interconnected by a dynamically reconfigurable non-blocking switching network. At each machine cycle any of 1024 pre-selected permutations of data can be realized among the processors. The main intended application of GF11 is a class of calculations arising from quantum chromodynamics

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
Plenum Press.
Imprint Place
New York, NY (USA)
Imprint Title
Lattice gauge theory
Journal Page Range
p. 279-280.

Conference

Title
a challenge in large scale computing conference.
Acronym
Lattice gauge theory
Dates
5-7 Nov 1985.
Place
Wuppertal (Germany, F.R.).

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
18043214
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S99: GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ARRAY PROCESSORS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT INTERFACES; IBM COMPUTERS; PARALLEL PROCESSING; PERFORMANCE; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; SUPERCOMPUTERS
Descriptors DEC
COMPUTERS; DIGITAL COMPUTERS; FIELD THEORIES; PROGRAMMING; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SIMULATION