Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
1999-12-31
Comput.Phys.Commun. 134 (2001) 139-149
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
Latex, 13 pages, 6 figures included, minor additions, typos corrected
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0010-4655(00)00182-X
We briefly describe the Poor Man's Supercomputer (PMS) project carried out at Eotvos University, Budapest. The goal was to develop a cost effective, scalable, fast parallel computer to perform numerical calculations of physical problems that can be implemented on a lattice with nearest neighbour interactions. To this end we developed the PMS architecture using PC components and designed a special, low cost communication hardware and the driver software for Linux OS. Our first implementation of PMS includes 32 nodes (PMS1). The performance of PMS1 was tested by Lattice Gauge Theory simulations. Using SU(3) pure gauge theory or bosonic MSSM on PMS1 we obtained 3$/Mflop and 0.45$Mflop price-to-sustained performance for double and single precision operations, respectively. The design of the special hardware and the communication driver are freely available upon request for non-profit organizations.
Csikor Ferenc F.
Fodor Zoltan
Hegedus Pal
Horváth Viktor K.
Katz Sandor D.
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