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From: sra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: IBM supercomputer to test QCD
Message-ID: <939@oddjob.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 13:09:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 23 13:09:00 1985
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In article <278@ecsvax.UUCP> dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) writes:
>The 1985 Aug 10 issue of Science News reports that IBM (of all things!)
>has built a 10 gigaFLOP supercomputer specifically to compute the mass
>of a proton from quantum chromodynamical "first principles."  The
>calculation is expected to take a year (!), but would have taken three
>centuries (!!!) on a Cray 1.
>
>Now, does anyone remember the name of the guy who wrote in Physics Today
>a few years ago that all physicists should go and buy Commodore 64s so
>they wouldn't have to use big computers any more?
>-- 

The author's name is Per Bak, and his point was that many of the calculations
that physicists used to do on mainframes can now be done on home computers.
That doesn't mean that there aren't calculations that need to be done on
large computers.

				Scott Anderson
				ihnp4!oddjob!kaos!sra

Project:  Get a Cray-1 for my living room.