The QPACE project is a research collaboration of IBM Development and European universities and research institutes with the goal to build a prototype of a Cell/B.E. processor based supercomputer.
This poster gives you an overview of the QPACE project, which is pursuing the development of a massive parallel, scalable supercomputer for applications in lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD).
The machine structure is a three-dimensional torus of identical processing nodes, based on the IBM PowerXCell 8i processor. These nodes will be tightly coupled by an FPGA-based, application-optimized network processor attached to the IBM PowerXCell 8i processor.
