Comparing Clusters and Supercomputers for Lattice QCD

Abstract

Since the development of the Beowulf project to build a parallel computer from commodity PC components, there have been many such clusters built. The MILC QCD code has been run on a variety of clusters and supercomputers. Key design features are identified, and the cost effectiveness of clusters and supercomputers are compared.

Comments: Lattice 2000 (Plenary) 9 pages, 7 figures (4 in color)