Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary 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 Article-I.D.: ecsvax.278 Posted: Mon Aug 19 20:00:55 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 20:50:13 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Duke U Comp Ctr Lines: 14 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 USENET: {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary