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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: IBM supercomputer to test QCD
Message-ID: <282@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 20:10:06 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 19 20:10:06 1985
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The 1985 Aug 10 issue of Science News reports that IBM (!) has developed
a 10 gigaFLOP supercomputer intended specifically to compute the mass of
a proton from quantum chromodynamical "first principles."  The
calculation is expected to require 1 year (!!), but would have taken
three centuries on a Cray 1 (!!!).  After it's done, it can be put to
other, similar uses.
-- 
D Gary Grady
Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC  27706
(919) 684-3695
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