Cost of dynamical quark simulations with improved staggered quarks

Abstract

The cost of dynamical quark simulations with improved staggered quarks is estimated based on current and planned running by the MILC collaboration. I find that a few 10s of Teraflop years should be sufficient to calculate down to a lattice spacing of 0.045 fm.

Comments: Lattice2001(plenary) 3 pages, includes hep-lat references not in published version