APE/Quadrics at DESY
DESY, the German HEP lab,
is currently configuring a APE
computer.
The APE
was developed by
INFN, Rome, and is now sold
under the name Quadrics
by Alenia Spazio, S.p.A., Italy.
It is a massively parallel SIMD machine, currently used at DESY for
Lattice Gauge Theory simulations.
Contact: <marcus@tsun.desy.de>
-
APE
- The commercial version of the APE is called
Quadrics
.
Description of the hardware of this SIMD parallel computer. Currently, there
are two Q16 and one Q1 machines operating (see also:
technical details).
-
TAO
- Previously called
APESE
. The own (Fortranish) language
of this machine.
-
ZZ
- The compiler language.
- Documentation
- These postscript files are slightly out of date but give you a good
first impression of the machine architecture and its programming language.
- APE a Roma
- APE page from Rome University "La Sapienza" with papers on the machine and various applications.
- Papers
- Index of papers from Rome, including work
done at DESY.
- History
- For friends of the Italian language:
I Calcolatori Paralleli APE dell' INFN,
the project description from Universita' di Pisa.
- Others
- The
YCPS at Yale, and the
CICA in Indiana, are one out of many places pursuing research in parallel supercomputing.
See also: Lots of information on
distributed and parallel programming collected by Jonathan Wang,
lattice computing,
FreeHEP parallel tools, and
other HPC research groups.
Last updated Dec 16 1996
kostas@het.brown.edu