QCD on the Cell Broadband Engine

Details QCD on the Cell Broadband Engine QCD on the Cell Broadband Engine

2007-10-12

arxiv.org/abs/0710.2442v1

PoSLAT2007:039,2007

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Lattice

7 pages, 3 figures, contribution to Lattice 2007 (Regensburg, Germany)

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We evaluate IBM's Enhanced Cell Broadband Engine (BE) as a possible building block of a new generation of lattice QCD machines. The Enhanced Cell BE will provide full support of double-precision floating-point arithmetics, including IEEE-compliant rounding. We have developed a performance model and applied it to relevant lattice QCD kernels. The performance estimates are supported by micro- and application-benchmarks that have been obtained on currently available Cell BE-based computers, such as IBM QS20 blades and PlayStation 3. The results are encouraging and show that this processor is an interesting option for lattice QCD applications. For a massively parallel machine on the basis of the Cell BE, an application-optimized network needs to be developed.

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