Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site oddjob.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!gargoyle!oddjob!sra 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 Article-I.D.: oddjob.939 Posted: Fri Aug 23 13:09:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 05:40:22 EDT References: <278@ecsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: sra@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson) Distribution: net Organization: University of Chicago, Department of Physics Lines: 21 Summary: 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.