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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: IBM supercomputer to test QCD
Message-ID: <278@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 20:00:55 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 19 20:00:55 1985
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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?
-- 
D Gary Grady
Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC  27706
(919) 684-3695
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